The article, written by Ekene Eze as part of a guest series, guides readers through setting up a food ordering application using modern development tools such as Strapi, Gridsome, and Snipcart. It covers the initial steps of creating a Strapi application and populating it with products, followed by setting up a Gridsome project and integrating Vuetify for styling. The article provides detailed instructions, including command lines and code snippets, to build a Gridsome application, enhance its layout with Vuetify components, and prepare it for connecting with Strapi to display products using Gridsome's GraphQL data layer. The series aims to equip readers with the skills to develop a functional e-commerce application, with future parts promising to address additional functionalities like cart and checkout features, and deployment.