Designing a Headless Shopify Storefront for Digital Products

By Neel Vora

This post walks through how I built designing a Headless Shopify Storefront for Digital Products, and where it fits in the rest of my work.

After years of working with Drupal, WordPress, and vendor-specific CMS tools, I wanted a clean, modern stack for digital products that still feels familiar to teams used to content-driven workflows.

The shop section of my site needed to feel cohesive with the rest of my portfolio while still using Shopify as the backend. That meant building a headless storefront.

What I built

• Storefront API client
• Floating cart
• Slide out cart drawer
• Quick view modal
• Category filters
• Product cards mapped to my 3D icon style
• Checkout redirect

Why headless

Shopify's hosted templates did not match my design system. I wanted full control of:

• Animations
• Layout
• Filters
• Cart interactions

Architecture overview

The Storefront API provides:

• Product data
• Collections
• Checkout sessions

My app handles:

• Cart state in localStorage
• Add to cart UX
• Quick view modal
• Premium animations

The result

A shop that feels like part of my brand and not an embedded Shopify theme.

Keep exploring

From here you can:

• Browse the digital products in the shop.
• Visit /neel-vora for more background about me and my work.
• Browse more posts on the blog.