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Build Faster, Smarter, Better: The Ultimate Next.js eCommerce Boilerplate

The Crystallize open-source starter kit provides developers with a robust boilerplate to quickly build modern, scalable eCommerce storefronts using the latest front-end technologies and best practices in performance, content modeling, and user experience.

Frontend Performance Best Practices and Checklist

Our Frontend Performance Checklist is a comprehensive, platform-agnostic guide that enumerates key front‑end best practices and optimizations for maximizing website speed and efficiency. It distills these performance strategies into an actionable checklist to help developers build faster, more efficient web applications.

Reimagining Sweef.se: A Case Study on Enhancing Performance and User Experience Through Next.js and Crystallize

Enriching online shopping experience amidst a challenging furniture market with Next.js and Crystallize.

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Cart Performance at Scale: Crystallize Shop API Under Black Friday Load

We’ve put the Crystallize Shop API through a stress test to simulate the expected traffic during Black Friday. The results show that your storefront can handle millions of cart interactions per hour, ensuring smooth checkouts even during peak campaign traffic.

React-based Static Site Generators in 2025: Performance and Scalability

React-powered static site generators (SSGs) combine the best of static publishing with dynamic capabilities. As we head into 2025, several frameworks stand out for their features, performance, and developer experience.

Content Modeling with Structured Content Explained

Content modeling is the practice of defining structured content for your websites, apps, or any digital platform.

Mastering Flows in Crystallize: Smarter Content and Commerce Automation

Flows have always been about process orchestration; Flow Actions make them an automation engine delivering speed, consistency, and governance for their content and product lifecycles.

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Checkout Flow: Leveraging Crystallize APIs

Building a Modern Checkout Flow with Crystallize APIs

A typical ecommerce experience needs a reliable checkout flow that moves a customer from browsing products to a complete order. With Crystallize, you can build such flows using a combination of the Discovery API and the Shop API. In this post, we walk through the core steps involved in a modern checkout flow: fetching products, hydrating a cart, placing a cart, and creating an order. The examples are language-agnostic GraphQL operations you can adapt to your frontend or backend stack.

Vertical vs. Horizontal Integration: Strategic Trade-offs and Benefits

When it comes to growing a business, you usually see two main approaches: vertical integration and horizontal integration.

Next.js 16 vs. TanStack Start for E-commerce

Next.js codifies the “golden path”; TanStack Start hands you the steering wheel.

Content Modeling Step-by-Step Guide

Content modeling, how is it done? It's not as tricky as it sounds! It usually starts with some good old-fashioned brainstorming and planning, often in team workshops.

Content Modeling with Structured Content Explained

Content modeling is the practice of defining structured content for your websites, apps, or any digital platform.

Headless PIM vs. Digital Shelf Suites: A Business Comparison

Headless PIMs and digital shelf suites may look similar but solve completely different problems. This breakdown reveals the key differences brands wish they'd known before scaling channels, rebuilding front ends, or investing in omnichannel reach.