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Why use Next.js for eCommerce?

Max Ikäheimo on November 02, 2022

eCommerce is a rapidly growing industry with no signs of slowing down anytime soon. To Stay ahead of the competition, using the best technology for...
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James Luterek

NEXT.js is definitely a great choice and I've seen many companies have success with the framework. It is important to remember that the site performance will only be as good as the APIs being called. I've seen too many implementations hindered by choosing a budget legacy backend like Shopify or Magento instead of an API-first offering.

Of course if a company does the work to go shopify headless it is much easier to have them switch to a better (sometimes cheaper) alternative, but it's always better to only build once.

So I guess my advice is, use NEXT.js, don't use shopify.

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Max Ikäheimo

well said!