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The Jamstack Book
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The Jamstack Book

by Raymond K. Camden, Brian Rinaldi
May 2022
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
7h 19m
English
Manning Publications
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5 Building an e-commerce site

This chapter covers

  • Establishing the needs of a typical e-commerce site
  • Comparing headless e-commerce systems for managing products and checkout
  • Choosing a static site generator for an e-commerce site
  • Creating and configuring a new site using Next.js
  • Building a product listing, product detail, and shopping cart in Next.js
  • Importing and using Markdown content in a Next.js site

An e-commerce site has many requirements that might make it seem ill-suited for an architecture based on static assets, as the Jamstack is. While the content aspects, such as product listings and detail pages, can be made to fit easily within a statically generated site, things like shopping carts, checkout processing, and order histories ...

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