E-commerce Builders Force a No-Code vs Headless Tradeoff
Building a customizable online storefront typically forces a choice between rigid no-code website builders and fully custom-coded headless commerce stacks, with no single platform offering both drag-and-drop editing and developer-grade API extensibility.
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