Alokai

Your guide to the truly agnostic composable frontend

· for mid-market

Alokai (formerly Vue Storefront) gives engineering teams a pre-built frontend layer that connects to any headless commerce, CMS, or search backend through ready-made integrations. Instead of hand-building a storefront from scratch, teams deploy a maintained React/Vue frontend with middleware, PWA defaults, and monitoring baked in. The buyer is typically a CTO or head of engineering at a mid-market or enterprise brand migrating off a monolith toward composable commerce without a two-year rebuild.

> pick this if

Pick this if you're a CTO or head of engineering replatforming to composable commerce and want a maintained, framework-flexible frontend layer rather than a custom React/Vue build from scratch.

> look elsewhere if

Look elsewhere if you're an SMB on standard Shopify themes, lack in-house engineering capacity to own a headless stack, or need a no-code page builder your merchandising team can edit directly.

> Alokai is built for

platform-agnostic

> what it does for ecommerce

Ships a maintained frontend layer for headless commerce replatforms
Connects to Shopify, commercetools, BigCommerce, SAP via prebuilt middleware
Reduces storefront build time from quarters to weeks for enterprise teams
Includes performance monitoring, caching, and PWA defaults out of the box
Supports React and Vue, giving engineering teams framework flexibility

> how you'd use it

Mid-market fashion retailer, $30M–$80M GMV, 8–15 engineers
Replatforming from Salesforce Commerce Cloud to commercetools and needing a production-ready storefront without a 12-month custom React build
→ Launches a new composable storefront in 10–14 weeks with middleware, caching, and Core Web Vitals targets met on day one
Enterprise B2C brand, $150M+ GMV, 25+ engineers across regional teams
Consolidating three legacy storefronts onto a single headless stack with Shopify Plus backend and Contentful CMS, serving multiple locales
→ Standardizes on one maintained frontend codebase with shared middleware, cutting ongoing storefront maintenance roughly 40% versus the previous bespoke builds
Mid-market DTC group, $10M–$40M GMV, 4–6 engineers
Running BigCommerce headless and wanting PWA performance without hiring a dedicated frontend platform team
→ Ships a Vue-based storefront with built-in monitoring and integration layer, avoiding a $500K+ custom frontend engagement

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