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What's Headless E-Commerce?

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Nov 02, 2021
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Headless e-commerce is like Shopify, but without most of the visuals you’re used to: it’s a pure backend and management portal for running and building shops on the web. 

  • Like any web app, e-commerce sites have two components: a frontend and a backend

  • The frontend is what you see and interact with; the backend is the database and APIs

  • Headless e-c…

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