Making Headless CMS and Commerce Talk to Each Other

As MACH architecture is gaining its popularity, solutions we are building tends to integrate on a frontend layer. This integration pattern unlocks omnichannel capabilities for your projects as you are not locked into just generating HTML for Web, but can power mobile apps, in-store devices, and even experiences in cars multimedia systems. That said, there is a problem that the operations team can face working with various components of the headless architecture....

February 15, 2021 · 4 min · Alex Smagin

Habitat version of a Sitecore Reference Storefront published on GitHub

Our port of Sitecore Reference Storefront finally passed all internal checks and got open sourced on EPAM’s GitHub account right before Sitecore SYM 2016. Habitat version of a Sitecore Reference Storefront on GitHub Fell free to dig in and answer your questions in comments, social networks, or in person during the Symposium (you will be able to find near an EPAM booth during breaks) THANKS I would like to thanks my team in Kharkiv, Ukraine that helps me to make this project happen....

September 14, 2016 · 1 min · Alex Smagin

Sitecore Catalog Feature for Habitat

Context As I’ve mentioned in the previous post, I’m this one is going to be dedicated to one of the features. I think that it makes sense to start from a catalog, as an e-commerce implementation will heavily rely on product information all over the site. Let’s dive into … Implementation Catalog feature in our case covered most of the components on the site where you might see products, not including check-out: product recommendations on a home page, product listing component, product details page, etc....

September 6, 2016 · 3 min · Alex Smagin

Mapping Sitecore StoreFront to Habitat

As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, my team and I are working on Sitecore Commerce StoreFront migration to Sitecore Habitat. Before we moved to code itself, we dug into codebases of both projects to review their “as-is” implementation and we decided to come up with a plan on how to go to map functionality to Habitat so that it would comply with the principles it suggests. And here is what we found out and came up with....

July 26, 2016 · 5 min · Alex Smagin

Inception: Sitecore Storefront to Habitat Migrating

Sitecore is quite a hot topic in our company. We have a lot of impressive initiatives going on: platform education programs, and optimization of project implementation approaches, formalization of development best practices, various accelerators from project starter kits to integrate external systems covering different aspects of digital marketing and commerce, just investigation of new technologies and their potential applications to Sitecore. Being an R&D solution architect in Digital Engagement practice, I’m fortunate to be in the middle of those activities....

July 19, 2016 · 3 min · Alex Smagin