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vuestorefront/vue-storefront

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TLDR

Open-source developer toolkit for building fully custom online storefronts that connect to any commerce platform, Magento, CommerceTools, and more, using Vue.js or React.

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  root((Vue Storefront))
    What it does
      Headless storefront
      Platform connector
      Middleware layer
    Supported backends
      Magento
      CommerceTools
      Other APIs
    Frontend options
      Vue plus Nuxt
      React plus Next.js
      Storefront UI kit
    Tech stack
      TypeScript
      GraphQL
      Express.js
    Audience
      Frontend developers
      eCommerce teams
      Agency developers
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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Build a fast, fully customizable storefront on top of Magento without being locked into its default theme.

USE CASE 2

Switch your store's front end from one commerce platform to another without rebuilding all your UI components.

USE CASE 3

Use a pre-built eCommerce component library, product grids, carts, checkout flows, as a head start on a new store.

USE CASE 4

Build a headless commerce frontend choosing either Vue with Nuxt or React with Next.js, depending on your team's preference.

Tech stack

Vue.jsNuxt.jsReactNext.jsTypeScriptGraphQLExpress.jsDocker

Getting it running

Difficulty · hard Time to first run · 1h+

Requires an existing commerce backend with API access (Magento, CommerceTools, etc.) and Node.js, writing code is required, this is not a no-code tool.

Open source, use freely including for commercial storefronts as long as you keep the license notice.

In plain English

Alokai (previously called Vue Storefront) is a set of developer tools for building the customer-facing front end of an online store. Rather than tying you to a specific store platform, it is designed to work with almost any backend that exposes an API: Magento, CommerceTools, and several others are already integrated out of the box. The claim is 3,500+ live stores using it, and the project is open source. The core problem it solves is that building an online storefront from scratch is slow, and most eCommerce platforms ship their own storefronts that are hard to customize deeply. Alokai sits in between: it connects to the platform of your choice through a middleware layer (an Express.js server), then renders the actual pages using either Vue.js with Nuxt or React with Next.js, depending on which framework your team prefers. Out of the box you get a working storefront theme built on top of Storefront UI, a component library designed specifically for eCommerce pages (product grids, carts, checkout flows, and the like). The theme is a starting point, not a locked-in design, and the README says it is fully customizable. The technology list includes Vue.js, Nuxt.js, React.js, Next.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, and Docker. Teams comfortable with modern JavaScript development would find it familiar. The project is hosted on GitHub, welcomes pull requests, and has an active Discord community for questions. The intended user is a developer or development team building a storefront for a merchant who wants control over the look and behavior of their store without being constrained by what the underlying commerce platform provides. It is not a no-code tool, writing and editing code is required.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Set up an Alokai storefront connected to a Magento 2 backend and show me the product listing page code.
Prompt 2
How do I add a custom product page layout to a Vue Storefront theme without breaking the existing components?
Prompt 3
Build a cart sidebar component using Storefront UI in a Vue Storefront application.
Prompt 4
Generate the middleware configuration for connecting Vue Storefront to a CommerceTools API backend.
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