NEW! Headless front-end solution comparison chart - Front-Commerce

PWA Studio vs. Vue Storefront vs. Front-Commerce: Comparing the best front-ends for headless commerce

Every e-commerce has different technological needs, often influenced by their teams and customers. When it comes to choosing a storefront solution for your online store, there’s a lot to think about. Framework, provider, features…

We’ve put together the comparison chart below in order to outline the technical differences between some of the top e-commerce front-end providers available today. And ultimately help inform you in your choice.

Updated Comparison Chart 2023 Vue Storefront Pwa Studio Front Commerce Small

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Headless Front-End Comparison

as of 01/12/2023

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Category

Sub-category

PWA Studio

Vue Storefront

Front-Commerce





























General










Created

June 2018

November 2017

2015

Last Version

13.3.0

2.8.0

3.1

Software Development Mode

Open Source

Open Source (Storefront Ul & some Vue Storefront integrations)

Proprietary (Vue Storefront Connect & some Vue Storefront integrations)

Proprietary

Provider

Adobe

Vue Storefront

Front-Commerce

Agnostic
❌ βœ”οΈ βœ”οΈ

HQ

USA

USA & Poland

France

Frontend Demo

veniapwa

demo.vuestorefront.io

Demo

Link to

GitHub

GitHub

GitHub

Pricing

Included in Magento

Free version and Enterprise version

Pricing

Developer Chat

Slack

Discord

Slack

Regular updates & long-term and backward compatibility for clients

No

No

Yes



















Integrations

Ecommerce connector

Magento 2.4+

Open Source
Magento 2 OS
Spree
Sylius
Odoo
PrestaShop
Vendure Shopware
With Enterprise offer

BigCommerce
Commercetools
SAP CC
Shopify

Magento 1 (CE, EE)
Magento 2 (OS)
Adobe Commerce
B2B
BigCommerce

CMS

M2 CMS API / Page Builder

Open Source
LexasCMS
Storyblok

With Enterprise offer
Amplience
Bloomreach Content
Contentful
Contentstack
LexasCMS
Sanity

Magento CMS API
WordPress
Prismic
Contentful

Search

ElasticSearch
Algolia

With Enterprise offer
Algolia
Bloomreach Discovery
Constructor.io

Algolia
ElasticSearch
Attraqt
Magento 2 Native search (ElasticSuite)

Payments

Paypal (Braintree), Stripe, Check MO, MultiSafepay

Open Source
Checkout.com
With Enterprise offer
PayPal, Stripe, Klarna,
Mollie, Adyen, Braintree, G Pay.

Apple Pay

Adyen, Paypal, Stripe, LYRA / Payzen, Ogone, Affirm, BuyBox, Monext Online (Payline), Payment on account B2B, HiPay

Tracking

Google Tag Manager

Vue Analytics Google Tag Manager

Compatible with all tracking solutions within Get analytics (Google Analytics, Intercom, Hubspot, Amplitude, Amazon, Pinpoint...)







Tech

Release pace

Minor version every 6 to 10 weeks

Releases undated

Minor version every 6 weeks

Frontend CodeBase

React.js

Storefront UI (Vuejs, React.js, Qwik)

React.js

Backend codebase

PHP

Historically Nuxt but as of late, have adopted a hands-off DIY approach. See more here.

Remix (NodeJS)

Data layer

GraphQL

Storefront Connect

GraphQL














Cloud hosting solution




In-house Cloud hosting solution

Adobe Commerce Cloud

βœ”οΈ
βœ”οΈ

CDN
❌ βœ”οΈ βœ”οΈ

24/7

Monitoring
❌ βœ”οΈ βœ”οΈ

Continuous deployment
❌ βœ”οΈ βœ”οΈ

Hosted in
❌
Unknown

France

Autoscaling
❌ βœ”οΈ βœ”οΈ

Problem Source Identification

❌
βœ”οΈ
βœ”οΈ
(For all Front-Commerce and connected third-party issues)





















Other







Coverage of features

All Magento OS Adobe Commerce

Covers all Magento features, but varies for other integrations

Covers 100% of Magento/ Adobe features and other backend solutions (eComm, CMS, search...) even B2B

i18n
βœ”οΈ βœ”οΈ βœ”οΈ

Multi-Websites
βœ”οΈ
βœ”οΈ (beta)
βœ”οΈ

Checkout
βœ”οΈ βœ”οΈ βœ”οΈ

Support

No support

Only with enterprise offering

Unlimited support during build

Offline Support

βœ”οΈ via Workbox

βœ”οΈ Full

βœ”οΈ Basic

Al

Not in use

In Beta

In use




Additional information
Singular focus on Adobe/ Magento. No possible compatibility with other e-commerce connectors. Fragmented offer, Storefront Ul, VueStorefront Connect and VueStorefront 2. It can be hard to understand the differences; not all features/ integrations are available across all offers.

Some integrations are maintained by the community, not by Vue Storefront themselves
All integrations and features are available to clients, with constant support and continuous improvements by our in-house team.

We also always ensure that new updates and integrations are compatible with previous versions. For example, moving from Front-Commerce 2.X to 3X is possible in a matter of days.

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