Snipcart Blog

Why should you be using Ruby on Rails for e-commerce? Answers inside that piece, complete with a shop tutorial on top of Refinery CMS. Code snippets, repo, and demo included!

Thinking of using React for e-commerce? Start here. We cover the framework's pros/cons + React-powered e-commerce solutions. Also included: full tutorial on how to build a Gatsby-powered store!

What are webhooks? They’re central to web development—but do you really know how to use them? Let’s go through a simple explanation with easy examples to get started.

Combining WordPress and React is a powerful way to build web applications. Read this intro to the WP REST API and step-by-step tutorial for a neat React SPA with WordPress as a backend.

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.

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].

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.

The functional paradigm completely changes the way we think about programming. In this overview, our developer Max explains the core concepts behind it. These you can apply to most languages right away, including JavaScript. Also contains a list of resources to learn FP in depth.

Learn to build an Angular e-commerce app strapped on top of Sanity, a powerful headless CMS. Live demo & open source code repo included.

Read this webpack tutorial for a quick introduction to the module bundler and discover Spike, a webpack static site generator.

What are APIs, really? Learn how to use & integrate APIs to strengthen and accelerate your development workflow. Smooth intro, promise.

Discover how Netlify CMS, an open source React JS app, enables Git-based content management for developers & non-technical editors alike.

Learn the advantages of flat file CMS vs. database-driven systems and how to build an e-commerce site with Kirby, a lightweight PHP CMS.

Learn what API-first, decoupled CMS are and how to build a web app with dynamic content managed in Directus, an open source headless CMS.

Learn to build a JAMstack e-commerce site with Wyam, a .NET static site content generator, and Snipcart, our HTML/JS shopping cart platform.

Learn why .NET technologies were picked to power our full SaaS application's architecture: startup story, pros and cons, and a Dot Net future!

Enable e-commerce on Pagekit CMS with a custom Snipcart extension. Step-by-step tutorial, code snippets, and live demo included!

Learn how to add a customizable layer of e-commerce to Processwire's PHP CMS with Snipcart, an HTML/JavaScript shopping cart platform.

Set up a Node.js e-commerce project in a flash with Harp JS' static site generator and Snipcart's frontend shopping cart.