The technology driving e-commerce is rapidly changing with the advent of e-commerce solutions, like Shopify Hydrogen, that separate backend functionality from the frontend tooling. This trend is generally called "headless" commerce. I don't particularly like the term, headless commerce, but will use it for the remainder of this post, simply because it is an accepted industry definition for this type of commerce set up.
The problem with headless e-commerce is that even though it offers exciting possibilities, it remains complex and difficult to implement. This is partially due to the fact that headless commerce is relatively new, i.e. Shopify only bought Remix in 2022 to accelerate the development of Hydrogen. However, the difficulty with headless is also related to the fact that most headless solutions are built in some sort of Javascript script framework, like React, and Javascript frameworks are notorious for changing things up way too frequently. This leads to too many solutions to the same exact problem, and way too much much code refactoring, making it nearly impossible to develop themes that can stand the test of time.
Our goal at DaliCommerce, Inc. is to make the transition to headless commerce easier by providing a full suite of services based around core technologies that we believe will stand the test of time, given their wide acceptance, their use of core Javascript Web Standards, and the standardization of their platforms.
We are focused on three main areas:
- Frontend e-commerce themes based on the Next.js App Router and powered by Shopify.
- Serverless functions running off of Cloudflare Workers (Note: Next.js Middleware and Edge API routes both run on Cloudfare Workers).
- Admin dashboards in Retool, which is an amazing tool to quickly build admin tools based on the technologies above.