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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