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AI · October 4, 2018

PWA front end for any eCommerce (Open Source)

Alokai (previously Vue Storefront) is the end-to-end frontend platform for enterprise commerce: storefront, data layer, cloud, monitoring and AI in one.

PWA front end for any eCommerce (Open Source) launched on October 4, 2018 with 15 votes, #970 of 2,827 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

In plain words

Alokai (formerly Vue Storefront) is an open-source frontend platform for enterprise eCommerce that connects any backend to customer storefronts. It provides a complete solution including storefront components, a data layer, cloud infrastructure, monitoring tools, and AI capabilities. The platform is designed to work with existing systems and prioritizes performance and speed to reduce customer abandonment and improve search rankings.

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From the sources

Everything between your backend and your customers: storefront, data layer, cloud, monitoring, and AI. One AI-native platform that works with the tools you already run. Modernize the customer experience on the stack you already own. Modernize the customer experience on the stack you already own. The 3 we hear most, and have solved for enterprise teams again and again. Every extra second of load time loses sales: shoppers leave before the page shows, and Google ranks slow stores lower. On most platforms speed is a ceiling set by the architecture, not something tuning can fix. Legacy stacks make every update slow, and a multistore or multibrand setup means building the same feature over and…from vuestorefront.io

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