Setting up GraphCMS

There are many different competitors in the e-commerce world; all of them offer a great set of functionalities for building modern and performant solutions, but there's always a kind of tradeoff when it comes to analyzing back-office features, frontend customization capabilities, APIs, integrations, and so on.

In this chapter, we will be using GraphCMS for a simple reason: it's easy to integrate, offers a generous free plan, and requires no setup for complex release pipelines, databases, or whatever. We just need to open an account and take advantage of the massive set of free features to build a fully working e-commerce website.

It also provides an e-commerce starter template with pre-built (yet fully customizable) contents, which translates to a pre-built GraphQL schema ready to consume on the frontend to create product pages, catalogs, and so on.

We can start by creating a new GraphCMS account by going to https://graphcms.com. Once we log into...