So I checked out the git branch for Next.js Commerce (<a href="https://github.com/vercel/commerce/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/vercel/commerce/</a>). Aside from the missing documentation, there seems to be a lot of touch points where the code is tightly integrated with BigCommerce's npm library.<p>At this point, it does not feel like the headless ecommerce part swappable. I'm sure that with time, the team will probably extract this out so that it's more plug and play (<a href="https://github.com/vercel/commerce/issues/2" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/vercel/commerce/issues/2</a>) or will require the libraries (ie. for Shopify, etc) to follow a certain pattern.<p>If anyone on the Next.js Commerce team is reading this, the other thing I noticed is that this requires a BigCommerce account. Would be great to have a functionality where one could test out all the end points without needing a third party service in local development. I happen to have a sandbox BigCommerce shop, but there's quite a few steps to get one set up.
Interesting. This feels like a very specific direction for such a general framework to take, but I can see how it makes sense: e-commerce occupies kind of an awkward middle-ground in the standard document-app dichotomy, making it potentially an ideal use-case for Next.js' hybrid approach.<p>On the one hand you have lots of "casual" or one-time visitors, for whom site responsiveness is going to have a big impact on conversions.<p>On the other hand you'll probably want to support real-time searching/sorting/filtering, dynamically managing a cart and account, etc. You'll probably also have some users who stay and browse for a while, and would benefit from a partially SPA experience.
Source code: <a href="https://github.com/vercel/commerce" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/vercel/commerce</a><p>Looks like it's still largely a work in progress
A Chargebee alternative for digital products would have been great, or something that integrates with Paddle. Don't touch ecommerce if you can sell digital products..