Headless / Composable Commerce
Right tool, every layer. Integration is the work.
Hydrogen, Next.js, and MACH-native architectures. Composable storefronts where you pick the right tool for each layer — search, checkout, CMS, payments — and we wire them into one system that ships.
Why headless
When the storefront and the commerce engine should not be the same thing.
Headless lets you pick the best storefront framework, the best search, the best checkout, and the best commerce engine — and engineer them to work as one system. Destm does the integration work most agencies skip.
Hydrogen
Shopify Plus headless framework expertise
MACH
Composable architecture, MACH-aligned patterns
<2s
P95 page load targets, hit on launch
Phased
Migrations — old + new in parallel, no big-bang
How the pieces connect
A headless storefront is a system, not a theme.
One request crosses every layer. Each is decoupled and independently deployable — the experience tier never blocks on commerce, and data and AI read across all of it.
Services
What we build headless.
Eight engagement shapes that recur. The first call refines which actually fits your stack and your timeline.
Hydrogen on Shopify Plus
React + Remix storefronts on Shopify's native headless framework. Oxygen hosting, server-side rendering, edge cache strategy tuned for commerce.
Next.js on Storefront APIs
Next.js storefronts against Shopify Storefront API, Adobe Commerce GraphQL, or commercetools — when Oxygen isn't the right host or you want full framework control.
MACH composable architecture
Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, Headless. Compose commercetools, Algolia, Stripe, Akeneo, and your custom services into one storefront.
Headless migrations from monoliths
Phased migration off Liquid, Magento Luma, or custom monoliths to headless. Old and new run in parallel until parity is proven.
Search + personalization layer
Algolia, Constructor, or Elasticsearch wired into the headless frontend with personalization and analytics signals from your CDP.
Checkout extensibility
Custom checkout UI on Shopify Checkout Extensions, Adobe Commerce GraphQL, or fully custom Stripe + Adyen flows.
Performance + Core Web Vitals
Edge caching, ISR, image optimization, lazy-loaded reviews and analytics — green Core Web Vitals at launch, not three sprints later.
Observability + experimentation
Sentry, Datadog, GrowthBook / Statsig wired into the headless layer. A/B tests on the storefront without breaking the cache strategy.
How an engagement starts
Three steps to a partnership
Intake call
30 minutes. We listen, you talk. No deck.
Diagnostic
We audit the surface, name the bottleneck, propose a path.
Kickoff
Senior engineer in your standup by week two.