Catalyst
Catalyst is the composable, fully customizable headless framework for BigCommerce.
A developer-first storefront application and toolkit officially engineered and maintained by BigCommerce, Catalyst jumpstarts your composable development, allowing you to skip building the boilerplate ecommerce experience and move straight to making it your own with custom branding and features.
Catalyst is built on Next.js and React, providing a fast-start foundation on the most popular web application development toolsets.
Catalyst Highlights
- A fully functional storefront within seconds
- Optimized for SEO and accessibility
- Fine-tuned performance, with market-leading Lighthouse scores
- Built on popular, best-of-breed tools that are widely used in the developer ecosystem
- Instantly customizable, ready for seamless integrations for every business need
- Minimally styled, maximally styleable
Catalyst in This Course
This course is designed to cover the broad, practical workflows relevant to every headless storefront powered by BigCommerce. The principles covered in this training are the same best practices utilized in the architecture of Catalyst, but the specifics of Catalyst’s implementation are not the focus of these topics.
If you plan to use Catalyst as a best-of-breed foundation for your composable storefront projects, you’ll find that the workflows and principles explored here are utilized within the framework, and you’ll be well equipped to dig deeper into Catalyst’s architecture. If you intend to roll your own implementation with your own preferred toolsets, you’ll find this content equally applicable to the necessary building blocks!
