ACES (Accelerators for Composable Enterprise Solutions) Contentful Storefront is a production-ready, open-source starter kit for building scalable, content-rich e-commerce websites using Next.js 15 (App Router), Contentful, and Shopify.
Architected with MACH principles (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, Headless), this starter kit accelerates the development of composable Shopify storefronts by bundling best practices, extensible architecture, and e-commerce CMS patterns out of the box.
Whether you're launching a headless Shopify store, multi-brand storefront, or content-driven e-commerce site, ACES provides a modern, flexible foundation built for performance and rapid development.
It’s fully powered by Contentful, with starter content models, sample content, and flexible layout patterns designed for scalable web experiences. Shopify is integrated for product data, checkout functionality, and cart management.
- Headless e-commerce powered by Shopify and Contentful for flexible, customizable storefronts
- Product data integration via Shopify API for dynamic, real-time product catalogs
- Checkout functionality and cart management directly integrated with Shopify
- Content-driven e-commerce with pages, blogs, and dynamic product landing pages managed via Contentful
- SEO-ready architecture to optimize product pages, landing pages, and blogs for search engines
- Real-time content updates with Contentful's Preview Mode and Live Draft Mode
- Customizable product listings with filtering, sorting, and pagination options
- Dynamic routing for multi-brand and category-specific product pages
- Global site search powered by Contentful and Shopify data for seamless product discovery
- Multi-language support, default locale
en-US, with easy extension for other languages - Storybook integration for building and testing CMS-driven UI components and design systems
- Material UI (MUI)-based theme for easy customization and responsive design
- Fully server-side rendered (SSR) and optimized with Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) for fast, dynamic content loading