Company
Date Published
Author
Garrett Dimon
Word count
978
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

StriVectin's upgrade of their e-commerce experience involved migrating from Magento to Shopify and integrating Gatsby to enhance their content capabilities. Gatsby's content mesh approach allowed for the incorporation of a headless CMS, Prismic, to manage and enrich product information beyond Shopify's standard fields. This integration enabled the inclusion of diverse content types, such as product experience management, detailed product information, and relational content like blogs. The Elevar team managed the migration of historical orders using Shopify’s tools and Excelify, while the transition from Magento to Prismic required manual content restructuring. Prismic's integration fields facilitated a seamless link between Shopify's core product data and Prismic's flexible content structures, allowing StriVectin to handle all site content within a single tool. Although Prismic lacks built-in content validation, Elevar addressed this through extensive validation during site builds. The use of Gatsby also simplified the creation of localized site versions, demonstrating the flexibility and efficiency of a headless e-commerce approach.