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Next.js with the App Router gives you server-side rendering by default — which is the single biggest SEO advantage over client-rendered storefronts. For any store where organic search drives revenue, this is the safe choice.

If you're launching fast and don't need custom frontend architecture, a Shopify OS 2.0 theme is the shortest path from 'I want a store' to 'my store is live.' No separate deployment, no CORS, no hosting bills.

Headless Shopify gives you the design freedom of Next.js with the operational simplicity of Shopify's backend. It's the middle-ground between a theme and a self-hosted backend — and the right call when you want custom frontend control without running Postgres yourself.

Medusa v2 is the open-source backend you run yourself. Pair it with a Next.js storefront and you get a fully self-hosted commerce stack with zero platform fees — at the cost of owning the infrastructure. This wins at scale; it loses on launch speed.

React Native + Expo is the default choice for a cross-platform mobile ecommerce app when your web team already writes React. You can share TypeScript types, API clients, and business logic with a Next.js web storefront through a monorepo.

Nuxt is the Vue equivalent of Next.js — same SEO ceiling, same performance profile, same ecosystem depth, just with Vue components instead of React. If your team writes Vue, Nuxt is the right default.

SvelteKit compiles components to vanilla JS at build time — there's no framework runtime shipped to the browser. The result is the smallest bundle and best Core Web Vitals of any stack in the catalog. If performance is non-negotiable, this is the stack.

Remix builds around the web platform — loaders fetch data server-side, actions handle form submissions, nested routes share data without refetching. Forms work without JavaScript by default. It's a different mental model from Next.js server components, and some teams love it.

Astro's islands architecture ships zero JavaScript by default and only hydrates the components that need interactivity. For content-heavy stores — catalog browsing, editorial product pages, long-form marketing — this produces the best Core Web Vitals of any framework, beating even SvelteKit on content pages.

Flutter renders every pixel via Skia instead of bridging to native UI — the result is pixel-perfect consistency across iOS, Android, and (optionally later) desktop and web. Pick Flutter when mobile UI polish is a differentiator and you have dedicated mobile engineering capacity.