Benefits of Headless and Micro-services in eCommerce

by KS Tomar Webkul - Software Development Company

Headless with Opencart

Before getting on pace with the Headless terminology. Let stop by a bit and know why we should choose Headless?

The concept is hardly new but gained importance as it unleashes the potential of the front-end developers to alter and deliver more precise, faster, and responsive user experiences.

The model allows innovation and helps the site owner build a system where they can refresh the design without re-implementing the whole CMS.

General Constructive Base of Headless

Consider your database is driven by CMS like Opencart which works as an editor and maintains the content of the site with the Opencart default admin interface.
The content or the data is accessed through the API( generally Rest API).
The website will consist of a pre-determined Custom front end, fetching the data from the API. The structural framework is designed by various Transcript-based online web applications like Angular, React, or Vue.

This creates an additional layer between the user end and your website.

Why go headless with Opencart?

Being one of the significant eCommerce Platforms, the Opencart platform provides a combination of better flexible, simple, and multi-functional solutions for your eCommerce.

It is a system based on the Model View Controller (MVC) pattern. So, it is effortless to build a decoupled architecture with Opencart, if you have knowledge about PHP and My SQL.

With the user-friendly administration dashboards and all menus straightforward and user-friendly: Catalog, Sales, Extensions, System. This makes this platform ideal for headless websites back end.

So, no need to focus on the design of Opencart. Instead, the focus can be on the REST API that will provide everything that is needed to be loaded on the front end.

Building up custom designing of the home page, product page, and category page, etc as per your needs will be a less effortful job.

Why is Headless Beneficial?

Unleash Design Freedom

The Major benefit of going headless is the freedom to the developers from the complex structural rules of CMS. The developers have full access to constructing the front end for enhanced user experience with the help of native tools.

Faster Responsiveness

The headless site offers a speedier and quicker response. As the application focuses on delivering the data to the end-user that is much faster than assembling a complete formatted response based on the complex CMS rules.

Long Term business

Headless helps you a lot in keeping your strong foot forward always. As it provides rapid updates without hassling with the back-end workflow.

The majority of the websites working over traditional websites provide slower updates as a comparison with the eCommerce giants like Amazon. With the decoupled architecture competitions with giants like Amazon won’t be much difficult.

Enhance User Experience

The User experience is enhanced to a whole new level. The back end is kept save the old school for keeping the data records. But the front end kept dynamic with real-time interaction through the API.

As needs to do shift over time of various customers, but what important is the experience they get across devices(like mobile apps) and channels.

Consider an example of a customer purchasing a mobile phone. If an eCommerce understands the need that the person who buys a mobile phone will need a mobile case or a screen guard and shows similar results over various devices or channels will for sure be a successful eCommerce.

The data for the purchase is already present. The personalized experience which the website provides is a sure-shot win.

Ease to go Omnichannel

With the growth of technology, data needs to be accessed from anywhere and everywhere.

Being in eCommerce means delivering the product, blogs posts through various channels(Web Apps, Progressive Web App, and even through your personal Assist). With headless, there is no need to re-architect to serve across channels.

Microservices and Opencart

With the introduction of microservices in the architecture in eCommerce, the world has a lead revolutionary approach to the app.

The complex structure is composed of the micro process which independently communicates with each other APIs.

These micro-processes gave the system a modular approach which is easier to replace since they run in a symmetrical architecture instead of the conventional hierarchical structure( Monolithic structure).

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