Headless commerce
| Information | |
|---|---|
| Category | E-commerce architecture |
| Core principle | Decoupling of front-end presentation and back-end logic |
| Primary interface | APIs (REST, GraphQL) |
| Related concepts | |
Headless commerce is an e-commerce architecture where the front-end (head) is decoupled from the back-end commerce functionality and can thus be updated or edited without interfering with the back-end, similar to a headless content management system (CMS). The term was coined by Dirk Hoerig, co-founder of Commercetools, in 2013.