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.