Snipcart Blog

Multiple factors impact your page load time and images are massively important in that equation. Here are the reasons they slow down your pages and what you can do to make it better.

A step by step guide to create a static e-commerce website using Snipcart on a Gatsby and DatoCMS project.

There are plenty of static site generators out there. This post will help you find the best one for your specific needs. We've listed the best SSGs in 2018 along with the main considerations you should keep in mind while making that decision.

In this case study, discover how Ici La Lune developers enabled e-commerce on a headless Drupal backend strapped to a Angular frontend using Snipcart.

Craft an SEO-friendly React app using Next.js. This tutorial shows how to generate static files to serve your rendered content to search engine crawlers. Code snippets, GitHub repo, and live demo included.

Read this to post to learn everything there is to know about headless e-commerce. We've built this developer's guide to explain the differences between traditional platforms and headless CMS, and the benefits of the latter. Includes comprehensive lists of tools, tutorials and frontend solutions.

In this post, DJ Walker from Forestry.io walks you through a complete static e-commerce setup: Hugo for site generation, Snipcart for cart & checkout, and Forestry CMS for content & product management. Live demo and Git repo included!

Learn how to improve, measure, and maintain developer productivity. This guide contains 5 key habits for developers, as well as related productivity tools to help you with: time management, code testing, distractions, and health preservation. Check it out!

Visual Studio Code and Sublime are two of the most popular code editors out there. In this post, I'll compare both tools' performance, customization, and extensions. For frontend developers out there, this will also answer the question: which one is better for JavaScript development?

Learn how to leverage Vue.js for e-commerce by bundling together a powerful, frontend centric online shop. Our recipe: Vue in the frontend + HTML/JS shopping cart + ButterCMS in the backend. Live demo & code repo included!

Supercharge your static site with forms, password-protected authentication, and AWS Lambda functions. This tutorial explores powerful Netlify features on top of a Gatsby site [w/ live demo & code repo].

We're often asked if it's possible to sell event tickets using Snipcart. Read this blog post to discover how you can, not only sell tickets but manage everything from tickets sales to QR codes generation and ticket scanning with our platform.

Learn what Python-powered generator Pelican is, and how you can use it to create a fast, static blog. This Pelican tutorial also includes simple steps to enable dynamic features--search & comments--on your static blog.

Read this introduction to Drupal headless architecture to know more about the benefits of decoupled CMS. We also get technical, with a live demo of Drupal as the backend for a small e-commerce app powered by the React-like frontend framework that is Inferno.js.

Read this guest post from the lead engineer at Contentstack Mayank Mishra to learn about this cool headless CMS. Mayank shows every step to get Snipcart running with Contentstack in minutes to craft a smooth e-commerce platform.

Meet freelance developer from the Netherlands, Ronnie Stevens. He's an expert Python developer, his CMS of choice being Django-powered Wagtail CMS. Read this to know how he built a simple webshop with it and Snipcart for Carlos in huis.

Staticman helps you bring user-generated content to static sites. See how it will improve your website versus third-party services and how it gives you back complete control over your dynamic content. We'll also show you how to integrate Staticman to Jekyll for user comments and product reviews.

Discover different ways to handle Laravel e-commerce. Then read our in-depth tutorial on how to create a full online store with PyroCMS, a flexible Laravel CMS, and Snipcart's shopping cart platform.

In this AfterShip review, developer for Neon Popsicle explains how he used this order tracking system for a greater customer experience. Find out what are also the benefits for merchants and how you can integrate the platform into a static site.

In this tutorial, we use Gatsby for React-powered static site generation with GraphQL schema to pull data from a headless CMS. The backend is handled by Grav CMS used solely for content management, as a decoupled CMS. React & GraphQL is a powerful combination for the frontend.