Performance & UX

TL;DR Headless commerce decouples the front-end storefront from the back-end commerce engine using APIs. This architecture offers greater agility, lower costs, and omni-channel flexibility compared to legacy commerce platforms. Headless CMS benefits developers, marketers, and overall business operations. This article explains headless commerce, its advantages, and how to start. Why headless commerce matters? In 2022, […]

Last month, we launched our first edition of ‘Prismic Chronicles,’ a monthly series to showcase our latest product updates! We’ve been having fun shipping new features and improvements weekly to simplify how you create and manage your websites. In this issue, we cover: New page snippet support for SvelteKit projects to accelerate development. Pre-built, pre-styled

Choosing between React and Svelte Over the past few years, there has been a constant explosion of new JavaScript libraries and frameworks – all promising to solve the complexities of building fast and efficient user interfaces (UIs) while maintaining a relatively smaller package size and improving performance. The constant emergence of new JavaScript frameworks and

In the tech world, updates happen all the time. But sometimes, these updates can feel like a chore, especially if you have to change a lot in your projects to keep up. That’s why we created a simple tool to upgrade your project to the latest version of Prismic, allowing you to focus on the

In Next.js 13, the app directory (also known as the app router) was introduced as a new way to build Next.js applications that leverage the benefits and updates made in the latest version of React (18). Since its beta was originally launched with Next.js 13 in 2022, it has matured and now become the suggested

TL;DR Svelte is a lightweight JavaScript framework used for building performant websites and applications. It compiles code written in Svelte and converts it into highly optimized vanilla JavaScript code for faster performance. SvelteKit is a Svelte-powered framework that builds on the foundations of Svelte and provides powerful features like SSR, code splitting, file-based routing, and

When working with TypeScript, there are several core principles you’ll use a lot. One of those is interfaces, so it pays to have a solid understanding and grasp of them. In this post, we’re going to do a deep dive into interfaces, their benefits as well as their various use cases. If you’d like to

If you’ve built a web or mobile app that relies on a third-party backend, you’ve probably seen a webhook. Let’s break down how webhooks work, find parallels with APIs you’re likely familiar with, and get hands-on by diving into a real-world example! What is a webhook? A webhook is a specialized API endpoint that pings

At Prismic, we launched a redesigned blog on August 31st, 2023. We think a good blog offers a superior, memorable user experience, loads fast, generates interactions with readers, and helps attract the right traffic to your website. From what we can tell so far, our initiatives prove to be working! It’s still too soon to

As any developer knows, too much time gets sucked away by repetitive coding tasks like wiring login views and fixing typos. This rote work hampers creativity. But here’s some exciting news – research shows generative AI coding tools can help engineers develop code 35-45% faster and document 50% faster. Thanks to breakthroughs in machine learning