My Headless Shopify Integration for Digital Products

By Neel Vora

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

The headless approach mirrors patterns I used in museum installations - decoupling the presentation layer lets you adapt to wildly different contexts without rebuilding core logic.

I wanted my digital course products to feel like part of my site instead of an iframe or separate checkout flow.

So I integrated Shopify's Storefront API directly into Next.js.

Components I built

• ProductCard
• QuickViewModal
• FloatingCart
• CartDrawer
• Category filtering

All of these pull from Shopify via GraphQL.

Storefront API client

My client supports:

• Fetching products
• Fetching collections
• Creating carts
• Updating cart lines
• Retrieving checkout URLs

The private token must be sent via the Shopify-Storefront-Private-Token header.

Floating cart

I created a floating cart button that persists across the shop and updates in real time as items are added.

Cart drawer

The cart drawer slides out with animations and shows:

• Items
• Quantity controls
• Subtotal
• Checkout button

Why this matters

This project demonstrates full stack ecommerce capability:

• Headless architecture
• Cart state management
• Real world GraphQL usage
• Polished product UI

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.