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5. How do people feel about this?

Now we get to the crucial part. Mark the parts that work well from the perspective of the person interacting with it with green dots. Mark the parts where people start to feel unhappy with yellow dots. Mark the parts where people get really frustrated with red. What you’ll probably see now is that your client starts to feel unhappy much sooner than employees or partners.

What is a views display extender?

The display extender plugin allow to add additional options or configuration to a views regardless of the type of display (e.g. page, block, ..). For example, if you wanted to allow site users to add certain metadata to the rendered output of every view display regardless of display type, you could provide this option as a display extender.

Why Use Drupal as a Commerce Platform?

Before we consider the frontend, we need a robust, secure backend platform to deliver our data and business logic. One of the many reasons Drupal is a great candidate for headless, or really any CMS build, is its inherent flexibility and security. Drupal's fieldable entities mean you can structure your CMS to fit your data.

How Does Headless Help?

When we implement a headless website, we can think of the frontend as less like a web page and more as an application. A properly designed React (or other JS frontend framework) app can be lightweight and heavily cacheable. On initial page load, we load our entire application into working memory.

How Do We Get There?

On the backend, you still need a robust, secure CMS to feed data to the frontend and handle complex or session actions (add to cart/checkout validation). This is where Drupal is an easy choice. One of the easiest ways to feed data to a frontend is via JSON data. Drupal Core provides the JSON:API module which allows you to easily expose your content as filterable JSON objects.