#GraphQL

May 21

Magento API Performance — REST vs GraphQL Trade-offs Explained With Real Numbers

Most Magento REST vs GraphQL articles compare syntax. After benchmarking three real queries against a Magento 2.4.9 store with 50,000 SKUs, the answer flips depending on the call pattern: REST wins single-resource by URL (95 ms vs 140 ms), GraphQL wins relational and grid loads by an order of magnitude (180 ms vs 665 ms), and the FPC versus @cache directive story decides whether either survives Black Friday. Here is the curl trace, the wrk concurrency test, and the cache invalidation pattern from client work on Magento 2.4.4 — 2.4.9.

May 21

Magento Next.js Storefront — Build It From Zero (Vercel-Deployable)

Most Magento + Next.js tutorials stop at fetching a product list. They skip authentication, cart hydration, ISR cache invalidation, and the SEO checklist for what to render server-side. This post walks through a complete `npx create-next-app` storefront against a Magento 2.4.4 — 2.4.9 GraphQL endpoint, deploy-ready on Vercel. Eight sections: project bootstrap, GraphQL client without Apollo, ISR for category pages, JWT auth via `generateCustomerToken` in an HTTP-only cookie, guest-and-customer cart hydration, server actions for `placeOrder`, the SEO checklist, and the production deploy. Real TypeScript, real GraphQL, and the traps that bite when the demo hits real customer traffic.

May 21

Magento Headless Commerce — The 4 Architecture Patterns Compared

Four headless architecture patterns ship against Magento 2.4.4 — 2.4.9 in 2026: Hyvä, PWA Studio, Next.js Commerce, and raw GraphQL with a custom front. Their adoption curves and commit velocities have diverged sharply since 2024 — PWA Studio lost roughly 70% of its commit velocity year-over-year while Hyvä cleared 700 compatible modules. This post ranks them by real GitHub data, names the right pattern by team profile and SEO priority, and gives you the four-question decision tree we run on every Magento headless engagement before writing a line of code.

May 21

Magento GraphQL Custom Resolver — A Complete Walkthrough

Adobe DevDocs ships a one-page resolver tutorial that stops the moment your query needs auth, cache control, or a real service contract behind it. This post builds a customerInsights resolver from zero on Magento 2.4.4 — 2.4.9: schema.graphqls with @doc and @cache(cacheable: false), a PHP class implementing Magento\Framework\GraphQl\Query\ResolverInterface, the di.xml wiring, the bin/magento setup:upgrade schema regeneration step, and the FPC trap that silently makes your resolver return stale data on every request after deploy.