Headless
Commerce.
Traditional eCommerce platforms force you into rigid templates and slow page loads. Headless commerce separates your frontend experience from your backend commerce engine, giving you complete creative freedom and fast pages. At CodeDrips, we build headless stores from the right tool for each part of the job.
What we
actually build.
What is Headless Commerce?
In a headless architecture, your eCommerce platform (like Shopify) handles the backend, including products, inventory, checkout, and payments, while a custom-built frontend (using Next.js, Gatsby, or similar frameworks) delivers the shopping experience to your customers. The two communicate via APIs, giving you the freedom to design any experience you can imagine without platform constraints.
Why Go Headless?
- Faster Page Loads: Static and server-rendered frontends deliver near-instant page loads, reducing bounce rates and improving conversions.
- Complete Design Freedom: No more fighting platform templates. Build the exact brand experience you envision.
- Omnichannel Ready: Serve the same commerce backend to your website, mobile app, in-store kiosk, or any other touchpoint.
- Better SEO: Faster sites with cleaner code rank higher. Headless architecture gives you full control over metadata, structured data, and page performance.
- Scalability: Handle traffic spikes and growing product catalogues without compromising performance.
Our Headless Commerce Stack
We combine proven commerce backends with modern frontend frameworks and headless CMS platforms:
- Commerce Backends: Shopify (Storefront API), WooCommerce (REST/GraphQL), custom solutions
- Frontend Frameworks: Next.js, Gatsby, React
- Content Management: Sanity, Contentful, DatoCMS, CraftCMS
- Integrations: Stripe, Klaviyo, loyalty programs, CRM systems, and more
Our Services
- Headless Shopify Storefronts: Custom React-based storefronts powered by the Shopify Storefront API for maximum speed and flexibility.
- Composable Commerce Architecture: We help you choose and connect the right tool for each part of your commerce stack.
- Migration to Headless: Already on Shopify or WooCommerce? We can migrate your storefront to a headless architecture without disrupting your operations.
- Content-Rich Commerce: Combine a headless CMS with your commerce platform to create editorial shopping experiences, lookbooks, and rich product storytelling.
- Performance Optimisation: Image optimisation, code splitting, edge caching, and Core Web Vitals tuning for the fastest possible shopping experience.
Is Headless Commerce Right for You?
Headless commerce is ideal for brands that need more than a standard template store. If you care about brand experience, site speed, and long-term scalability, headless is the way forward. We'll help you evaluate whether headless is the right fit and design an architecture that meets your business goals.
Six things we do well.
Custom Shopify themes
OS 2.0 themes built for your catalogue, not the demo store. Theme app extensions where Liquid runs out.
Headless storefronts
Hydrogen + Oxygen, Next.js + Shopify Storefront API, or Sanity for content-led commerce.
Subscriptions & B2B
Recharge, Bold, Shopify’s native B2B, wired in cleanly with the rest of your stack instead of bolted on.
Replatforms
Off Magento, BigCommerce or Salesforce Commerce Cloud, with no-downtime DNS swaps.
Performance
Core Web Vitals as a launch gate. Image pipelines, edge caching, third-party tag audits.
Conversion craft
PDP, cart and checkout work that compounds. We measure, we iterate, we don’t guess.
Whatever the job needs.
We’ve worked across most languages and frameworks since 2018, and we pick whatever fits your project, or keep what you already run. A few we use often:
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Let’s
rebuild it.
Send us an outline of what you’re trying to build. We reply within one business day. If we’re a fit, we’ll book a 45-minute call and tell you honestly whether we’re the right studio.