Storefront UI
A frontend library for React and Vue that helps developers quickly build fast, accessible, and beautiful storefronts. Made with by Vue Storefront team and contributors.
Overview
Storefront UI is a UI library and design system that aims to accelerate the development process by providing a set of pre-made components, utilities, and patterns. It addresses various challenges in building user interfaces such as developer/designer workflow, performance, and accessibility. Additionally, Storefront UI stands out with its customization options, scalability, and focus on eCommerce.
Features
- Developer/Designer Workflow: Storefront UI includes Figma files, allowing design and engineering teams to stay aligned with a pixel-perfect representation of the code.
- Performance: Storefront UI ensures optimized performance with well-written and streamlined components. All standard eCommerce pages built with Storefront UI achieve high scores on Lighthouse mobile performance tests.
- Accessibility: Storefront UI components are WCAG AA compliant out-of-the-box, making it easier for developers to build accessible interfaces and avoid legal compliance issues.
Storefront UI excels in the following areas:
- Customization: Unlike other UI libraries, Storefront UI enables heavy customization of components without compromising the desired look. It provides small and flexible base components that can be combined to create complex designs. Additionally, pre-built examples (Blocks) are available for easy customization.
- Scaling: As applications grow, maintaining the UI becomes challenging. Storefront UI offers the right building blocks and utilizes Tailwind CSS to ensure easy maintenance and optimal performance, even at a large scale.
- Focus on eCommerce: Storefront UI includes components specifically designed for eCommerce, such as ProductCard, QuantitySelector, and checkout components.
- React
React is a widely used JavaScript library for building user interfaces and single-page applications. It follows a component-based architecture and uses a virtual DOM to efficiently update and render UI components
- Vue
Vue.js is a lightweight and flexible JavaScript framework that allows developers to easily build dynamic and reactive user interfaces. Its intuitive syntax, modular architecture, and focus on performance make it a popular choice for modern web development.
- Tailwind
Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework that provides pre-defined classes for building responsive and customizable user interfaces.
- Ecommerce
Ecommerce websites sell products or services to customers through an online storefront. These websites typically include features such as product listings, shopping carts, payment processing, and order management tools.
- UI Kits & Components
A UI kit provides developers with a set of reusable components that can be easily integrated into a website or application. These components are pre-designed with consistent styling and functionality, allowing developers to save time and effort in the design and development process. UI kits can be either custom-built or third-party, and often include components for buttons, forms, typography, icons, and more.
- Pwa
A Progressive Web App (PWA) is a type of web application that uses modern web technologies to provide a native app-like experience to users, including offline functionality, push notifications, and device hardware access. PWAs can be installed on a user's home screen and launched like a traditional app, but do not require a separate app store listing or download.
- Typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, providing optional static typing, classes, interfaces, and other features that help developers write more maintainable and scalable code. TypeScript's static typing system can catch errors at compile-time, making it easier to build and maintain large applications.
