[aloukissas]

Naive question: the "storefront" piece seems like it's a static page. Why does it need SSR? Even so, it could be SSR'ed to static _once_ (kind of how NextJS does this from 9.3+), then have it served by CDN/edge. I'm probably missing something here.

[raihansaputra]

Throwing opinions here, but after working a bit with Shopify themes, there might be some reasons to stick with SSR rather than aggressive caching. First, the storefront can be dynamic depending on visitor region/login/logout. Second, Shopify have most of the logic on the backend, even having non-js html nodes for ordering/add to cart. Third, I don't think the visit distribution of the stores makes caching economically viable (the top 20% store probably don't account for +60% server load).

[bdibs]

They mentioned caching full HTML responses so I'm guessing that's what they're doing.