Rapidez – Headless Magento with Laravel and InstantSearch
I've been working with Magento for years, but for side projects I used CodeIgniter. When Laravel was released, I switched and thought: It would be nice to create a Magento shop within the Laravel ecosystem! So, in 2020, I created a proof of concept: some Laravel models on top of the Magento database, with a frontend using Laravel Blade templates and some basic styling with Tailwind CSS. The result compared to Magento? Super fast product pages! Next up: category pages. These need filtering, sorting, etc. preferably without page refreshes. Magento requires Elasticsearch (since 2.4.8, only…
Rapidez – Headless Magento with Laravel and InstantSearch launched on June 11, 2025 with 9 votes, #3,023 of 7,999 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
What it does
A blazing fast headless frontend for your Magento 2 webshop! 🚀 Easy customizations from Laravel Blade templates with renderless Vue components. Using GraphQL, Tailwind CSS, InstantSearch and Laravel Scout
Rapidez is the lightning fast headless frontend for Magento with Laravel and InstantSearch.
Rapidez v5 Upgraded to Vue 3 and Tailwind 4 + we removed the flat table dependency + more features 🚀 Rapidez vs Hyvä When choose Rapidez? And when should you choose Hyvä? Rapidez v4 Migrated to InstantSearch, Laravel Scout, autocomplete improvements and many more! 🚀 View All Blog Posts Free and open-source Rapidez aims to upgrade your Magento 2 webshop experience by providing an exceptionally fast and easily customizable headless frontend. Rapidez delivers a green score on Google Lighthouse. Developing Rapidez we kept it simple. This gives developers the freedom to choose their preferred frontend techniques, making development easier, faster, and much more enjoyable. Rapidez uses…from rapidez.io
In the maker’s words, at launch
I've been working with Magento for years, but for side projects I used CodeIgniter. When Laravel was released, I switched and thought: It would be nice to create a Magento shop within the Laravel ecosystem! So, in 2020, I created a proof of concept: some Laravel models on top of the Magento database, with a frontend…
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