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Next.js + Shopify Headless eCommerce: Architecture, Tradeoffs, and What Most Teams Get Wrong

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Headless commerce is one of the most misframed problems in modern web development. Teams scope a Next.js + Shopify project as a UI rebuild, ship it, and then spend months untangling API credential leaks, broken cache invalidation, and checkout attribution gaps they didn't see coming. This episode cuts through the noise with a clear-eyed look at the architectural decisions that actually determine…