Angular is a frontend framework created by Google. It is a popular solution for large enterprise websites that plan to scale their site quickly. All in all, Angular offers great runtime performance and is fit to be the backbone for complex, revenue-generating websites with heavy traffic, such as eCommerce and Travel websites.
Angular comes with a bunch of built-in capabilities, including:
Magento 2 is a popular eCommerce platform based on PHP7 and supports HTML5. In addition to its own proprietary frontend frameworks, the platform also supports multiple frameworks, including the Zend Framework 1 and 2 and MySQL Percona 5.6 or greater. The platform offers rich, out-of-the-box features, third-party integrations, and customizations.
Key features which help performance include:
While there are some promising features, including a built in caching module, the platform does little to help vendors in terms of site speed. In fact, the platform leaves most site speed optimization to its customers and their developers / implementors.
In terms of frontend compatibility, Magento 2 offers a few proprietary frontends and robust APIs. Its frontends include: Base, Luma, and PWA Studio (available for M2.3 and up) and APIs include: REST, SOAP, and GraphQL. Please note that PWA Studio and GraphQL are both only supported on Magento 2.3 or later. Furthermore, PWA Studio is geared specifically toward the platform, so you remain locked into its ecosystem. You can connect your own portable frontend or headless endpoints to the platform via the GraphQL API, however, customization of Magento's code and/or database schema can disrupt API compatibility.
Layer0 lets you deliver your Angular store on Magento for sub-second speeds. While Magento 1 is no longer supported by the platform, it is still compatible with Layer0. The average website on Layer0 see median speeds of 320ms loads, as measured by Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). However, Layer0 is much more than a website accelerator. It is a Jamstack platform for eCommerce. Layer0 makes websites faster for users and simpler for frontend developers to maintain. The platform was built specifically for large-scale, database-driven websites, such as eCommerce and Travel, to bring the following benefits:
With Layer0, your Angular Magento store will run in sub-second speeds and your developers will be empowered to control edge caching and reduce rework using the various developer productivity tools that come with the platform.
Browse around AKIRA, a Magento website on Layer0. AKIRA went from 6 seconds to sub-second page loads and saw mobile transactions double on Layer0.
If you're currently using Angular, use the this guide to deploy your Angular app on Layer0 and get sub-second loads in as soon as 1 hour of work.
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