Intro

Today, making an appealing and streamlined e-commerce website seems like the tall order of the day. Consumers expect a fast-loading website with little or no hassle when accessing desired products, and brand recognition rely upon your website's UX and design. It is not uncommon for e-commerce owners to be in the position to choose between speed, UX, and security.

But not anymore.

If your business uses WordPress for web development, your developers already know that WordPress, CMS's golden standard, is increasingly vulnerable to various threats. Outdated core software, themes, plugins, malware, and credit card skimming are just a few among a growing number of hazards that can cause significant losses to your business.

That is why Headless WordPress is the technology of the future. Combined with other technologies in innovative ways, it enables you to have a fast, secure, and easily scalable website tailored-made for your business.

Here at Forga, our goal is to build websites that look, feel and act like your brand's core audience and communities. That is why we know our technology has to be of this moment.

On top of that, rethinking technologies and approaches often keep us busy. At the beginning of the year, we compiled both adopted and emerging technologies to create one of the most comprehensive tech stacks in the field of commercial websites out there.

Key change: Combining and connecting technologies into a functional system

The core innovation of our approach is combining React with Headless WordPress.

React is one of the most elegant Javascript frameworks for creating high-speed static pages. Headless WordPress has the role of CMS (content management system), with its dashboard familiar to most content managers.

Let us use the example of a user opening your new product page to showcase how this tech stack works.

The first step of adding your new product to your webshop stays the same. Since it is dynamic content, you use your dashboard as usual, and when published, the page is live and stored in your website's base. The Change comes into play next.

Unlike a standard WP website, when your user clicks on the product page, a headless website made by Forga does not waste time. Instead of calling back all of the data stored on the server, even the irrelevant one, our tech stack performs a "mirroring effect." Instead of calling for data, it automatically creates a static clone of the product page and shows it promptly to the user. This takes less tech hassle and way less time. In the words of our CTO, Sava - "A good way to explain this is a hologram. React creates a display of a page which is the same as the real page, yet light and insubstantial so that you can use it, but you can't hurt it."