Setting up GraphCMS
Explore the process of creating a GraphCMS account, selecting an e-commerce template, and connecting it to a Next.js application. Learn to use GraphCMS's GraphQL APIs for managing product content and configure environment variables for seamless data access and mutations within your storefront.
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GraphCMS
There are many different competitors in the e-commerce world; all of them offer a great set of functionalities for building modern and performant solutions, but there’s always a kind of trade-off when it comes to analyzing back-office features, front-end customization capabilities, APIs, integrations, and so on.
We’ll be using GraphCMS for a simple reason: it’s easy to integrate, offers a generous free plan, and requires no setup for complex release pipelines, databases, or whatever. We just need to open an account and take advantage of the massive set of free features to build a fully working e-commerce website.
It also provides an e-commerce starter template with prebuilt (yet fully customizable) contents, which translates to a prebuilt GraphQL schema ready to consume on the frontend to create product pages, catalogs, and so on. ...