"Headless Magento 2"

Amasty Magento 2 PWA Solutions

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Amasty Magento 2 PWA solutions review

The rise of mobile shopping is one of the biggest trends in the e-commerce industry. The opportunity to make purchases on the go and the convenience of shopping on a smartphone or tablet from any location has led to significant growth of mobile commerce. At the same time, retailers increase customer engagement and boost mobile traffic by leveraging new sales channels and reaching out to target audiences.

Following this trend, it is crucial for e-commerce merchants to optimize their websites for mobile devices. Building a mobile app is an excellent way to deliver a smooth user experience across various touchpoints. However, developing a native mobile application is a time-consuming and costly approach. Luckily, an ever-evolving technology offers another solution for improving UX on mobile – Progressive Web Applications, or PWAs. If you are new to this term, check out the article on PWA and Headless Magento 2, explaining what PWA is and how to implement the headless approach on Magento. 

Magento has developed a project called PWA Studio that provides a set of native tools for developing, deploying, and maintaining a Magento 2 PWA storefront. Besides, Magento 2 ecosystem offers third-party PWA solutions that allow building a PWA storefront on top of the Magento backend. The Amasty Magento 2 PWA modules are among those tools. This post explores the benefits and features of the Amasty complete PWA solutions for Magento 2. If you are interested in alternatives for developing a PWA-based website, pay attention to frontend-as-a-service tools, such as Vue Storefront and DEITY Falcon. Besides, you can utilize Magento 2 PWA themes, like, e.g., ScandiPWA and Tigren.

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Magento 2 Webkul PWA Review: Progressive Web App Extension For Your E-commerce Website

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Webkul Magento 2 PWA

Here at Firebear, we explore every new opportunity the e-commerce market provides to share our discoveries with our readers. For almost a decade, we monitor the Magento ecosystem and write about the most exciting things we find. Our materials often go far beyond the platform, covering not only the related tools and opportunities but also alternative ways to run an e-commerce business. As for the following article, it continues our exploration of the headless approach to Magento 2. If you haven’t heared about this new trend, here is brief research. Take the powerful Magento 2 backend and add any custom frontend with lots of new features to it. That’s how headless Magento 2 looks. The platform even offers a set of native tools called PWA Studio. But you can also leverage various third-party alternatives, including Vue Storefront and DEITY Falcon which are frontend-as-a-service. At the same time, you can rely on more simple solutions – different Magento 2 PWA themes, including  ScandiPWA and Tigren. However, there is also a third dimension of PWA tools – extensions. The Webkul Magento 2 PWA module is one of them. Below, we explain the core features of the instrument, explore its frontend, and shed light upon migration to a Webkul Magento 2 PWA website. Before going any further, let’s say a few more words about PWAs in general and headless Magento 2 in particular. Continue Reading

Magento 2 Tigren PWA Review: New Generation Of Magento 2 Themes

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Tigren PWA Magento 2

We’ve started exploring e-commerce long ago before it became so powerful and overwhelming. For almost a decade, we deliver different solutions for the Magento ecosystem, exploring the global market of digital commerce with all its features, trends, and nuances. While it gains higher paste from year to year, providing market players with new opportunities, we try to overview its significant changes and enhancements that expand the existing boundaries. This time, our attention is bound to progressive web apps and headless Magento 2. The most potent e-commerce platform now lets you leverage its backend and create absolutely uniques shopping experience on top of it. Furthermore, a set of native tools designed to create custom storefronts is now a part of Magento 2. So-called PWA Studio helps coders to achieve this goal as fast as possible. However, if you are a merchant, the Magento 2 PWA studio won’t be helpful, but there is another way to customize your frontend with the app-like shopping experience. The ecosystem already offers such third-party alternatives as Vue Storefront, DEITY Falcon, and ScandiPWA. While the first two platforms offer frontend-as-a-service experience, Scandi is a Magento 2 theme, and today we describe another similar solution – Tigren Magento 2 Theme. Below, we explore the Tigren Magento 2 PWA features, frontend, and migration. Before going any further, let’s say a few words about progressive web applications. Continue Reading

Magento 2 ScandiPWA Review: Another View On Headless E-Commerce

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Magento 2 Scandi PWA theme

For almost a decade, we explore the global e-commerce market with all its sophisticated trends. It steadily evolves, providing players with lots of new conditions and opportunities. Every year, new and new software solutions increase its potential capacity, accelerating growth, and improving the environments customers, merchants, marketers, and developers interact with. Thus, we see a broad diversity of experiences, such as Magento 2 introduces today. The leading e-commerce solution not only provides a limited set of default features but enables numerous customizations. Both these advantages became a part of the platform’s nature from the very beginning. However, both dramatically evolved within the past years. While initially serious Magento 2 customizations were possible only via third-party extensions and themes, the e-commerce system now supports the headless approach. It means that you can take the power of the platform’s backend and create any frontend on top of it. Magento 2 even offers a set of native tools and a related theme – PWA Studio – to achieve this goal. At the same time, you can leverage such third-party alternatives as Vue Storefront and DEITY Falcon. If nither of these tools looks suitable for the realization of your business goals, pay attention to ScandiPWA – another Magento 2 PWA that provides a comprehensive set of features and top-notch productivity. Below, you will find this platform-agnostic progressive web app described. Besides, explore the Scandi Magento 2 PWA frontend. Continue Reading

DEITY Magento 2 PWA Review: Empowering E-Commerce Excellence

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

deity falcon magento 2 pwa

The global e-commerce market evolves steadily. It introduces new features and trends, expanding the existing borders more and more. The latest software solutions accelerate its growth, improving the lives of customers, merchants, marketers, and developers. As a result, today’s e-commerce systems offer a broad diversity of features, opportunities, and experiences. And Magento 2 is not an exception. The platform has become a leading solution that provides robust default possibilities and at the same time, supports numerous customizations. Both these advantages can be combined and multiplied due to the headless approach: you can take the powerful Magento 2 backend and create any frontend on top of it. Use the native Magento 2 PWA Studio or third-party alternatives, such as Vue Storefront, to do that. If nither of these tools seem to be suitable, pay attention to DEITY Falcon – another Magento 2 PWA that offers comprehensive features and top-notch productivity. Below, we describe the key characteristics of this platform-agnostic progressive web app and shed light on the Deity Magento 2 PWA. Continue Reading

Vue Storefront Magento 2 PWA Review: Exploring The Future of E-Commerce Stores 

- E-Commerce, Magento 2

Vue storefront Magento 2 PWA

The global e-commerce market riches new and new milestones every year. At the same time, it incorporates the latest achievements from the software field to accelerate the growth and satisfy the consumers’ steadily rising demands. Each e-commerce platform tries to offer something unique in terms of user experience. However, Magento 2 is the leading solution. The platform not only provides strong possibilities out of the box and enables numerous customizations based on third-party extensions, but it also lets you create absolutely new customer experience due to the headless approach. You can either utilize the native Magento 2 PWA Studio or rely on one of the third-party alternatives. Today, we describe one of the most popular progressive web applications. Meet Vue Storefront – ultrafast, offline-ready, and platform-agnostic PWA that expands the user experience of Magento 2 to an entirely new level. Continue Reading

Magento 2 PWA Studio Review: Endless Possibilities of The Native PWA Solution

- E-Commerce, Fire development, Magento 2

Magento 2 PWA Studio

It seems that PWA and Headless Magento are a new e-commerce trend that will soon dominate the ecosystem. Unlike the default frontend, PWA has no limits when it comes to the features and usability you want to implement. Of course, the ecosystem offers tons of extensions that let you exceed the default boundaries of the out-of-the-box Magento frontend. However, PWA solutions go even further. Instead of extending the existing frontend, it enables you to create an entirely new storefront that has an absolutely fresh look and offers a user experience that none of your competitors provide. In the article below, we’d like to draw your attention to the Magento 2 PWA Studio – a free native set of instruments that lets you create a headless Magento 2 website with the minimum time and effort. Continue Reading

PWA & Headless Magento 2

- Magento 2

Magento 2 PWA

What do you know about PWA? What about Headless Magento? Both are hot topics. Besides, they are closely related; and below, we explain each phenomenon as well as shed light on Magento 2 PWA – PWA e-commerce based on our favorite platform via Headless Magento 2. The article describes the official Magento 2 instrument – PWA Studio. Next, it discusses the current frontend and compares it to the PWA alternative. Besides, you will find our thought of the Magento PWA readiness for different target groups. There is also a section that offers links necessary to start the exploration of the new technology. And of course, we explore the biggest Magento PWA projects. The remaining chapters of this article explore the PWA concepts and their application to the Magento ecosystem. Continue Reading