Headless E-Commerce: The advantages of using Headless CMS with your e-commerce site

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Argues that decoupling front end from back end boosts flexibility and performance, shows a live Next.js app that reads product data synced from Shopify into Sanity sync and renders custom pages while calling the Shopify Storefront API to create a checkout URL. Demonstrates a bare‑bones Shopify catalog turned into animated, unique product pages, explains numbers (Adidas case: 1B→4B sales), and notes tradeoffs: needs developer skills but improves SEO, hosting options, and security.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:41What does Headless mean?
3. 5:58Traditional E-commerce
4. 7:17Headless E-commerce

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