Using Gatsby Cloud for E-Commerce: A Case Study
summary
Headless Shopify storefront built with Gatsby, Gatsby Cloud and DatoCMS, using Algolia search, Google Places API for reviews and SendGrid for contact emails; a custom Google Places plugin is created and serverless functions handle newsletter signups and a back-in-stock customer alerts app via its API. gatsby-source-shopify now uses bulk operations and is 16× faster, site Lighthouse score jumps from 14 to 92 (a 557% increase), traffic spikes handle a reported 155% day‑over‑day surge, users +10%, pageviews +40%, bounce −16%, transactions +10%.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:23Requirements
- 3:34Why Gatsby
- 6:56The ecommerce platform
- 10:23The CMS
- 11:40Google Places API
- 12:00Algolia
- 12:11Implementation
- 14:53Decoupling
- 15:46Function Declaration
- 17:26How to Stop Notifications
- 19:27Contact Form
- 21:28New Website
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