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storefront-foundation/react-storefront
React Storefront - PWA for eCommerce. 100% offline, platform agnostic, headless, Magento 2 supported. Always Open Source, Apache-2.0 license. Join us as contributor (contributors@reactstorefront.io).
A Next.js-based framework for building eCommerce PWAs, providing pre-built UI components (PLP filters, carousels, menus, search) and server-side plumbing like service workers, lazy hydration, and API routing. Aimed at teams building headless storefronts on top of Magento, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, or custom backends. Last commit was March 2023 — this project is effectively unmaintained.
Good component coverage for the eCommerce domain — filter groups, faceted search, media carousels, and product option selectors are all there and tested. Lazy hydration via LazyHydrate is a real performance win for content-heavy product pages that not everyone bothers to implement. Test suite is thorough and mirrors the component tree closely, which makes PRs easier to evaluate. Apache 2.0 license with no CLA means you can actually fork and ship without legal overhead.
Dead project — no commits since March 2023, Node badge still says v8.x in the README, and the deployment story references Layer0 (now Edgio, itself in financial trouble). The AMP generation angle is a liability now that Google dropped AMP from ranking signals. Tight coupling to Layer0/Edgio's CDN primitives for cache control means you're not actually platform-agnostic despite the claim. The mock connector is useful for demos but there's no reference implementation of a real backend connector, so the 'platform agnostic' pitch falls apart the moment you need to wire up a real catalog.