Next Generation Front-End for WooCommerce

Introduction

The goal of WooNuxt is to provide a modern, fast, and SEO-friendly front-end for WooCommerce. It’s built on Nuxt 3 and uses the WPGraphQL API to retrieve all the data it needs. It’s also fully customizable and can be extended with your custom components and modules. You can see a live demo of WooNuxt by clicking the button below.

Demo	URL
Netlify Demo	https://v3.woonuxt.com/
Vercel Demo	https://woonuxt-v3.vercel.app/
NuxtHub Demo	https://woo.nuxt.dev/
Customized Demo	https://myshop.woonuxt.com/

Troubleshooting

You can find some common errors and how to fix them here

Get Started

• Download the latest WooNuxt Setting (woonuxt-settings.zip).
• Install and activate the plugin on your WordPress site. This will install all the required plugins for WooNuxt, add some useful fields to the WPGraphQL schema, and automatically retrieve the WooCommerce payment gateway settings for Stripe and PayPal.
• Once the plugin is activated you are ready to deploy WooNuxt on whatever hosting you like or click one of the fast deploy buttons below.
• Once the plugin is activated the only required environment variable is GQL_HOST. Check out the .env.example file for more details.

How to customize & extend WooNuxt 🎨

WooNuxt now uses the Nuxt layers feature to make it easy to customize any part of WooNuxt just like you would with a WordPress theme with its child theme.

Example: I have created a pages directory and added a contact.vue file in the pages directory. This will override the default contact page that comes with WooNuxt. You can do this with any page or component. So think of the woonuxt_base folder as the parent theme and the root folder as the child theme.

Here is a branch with an example of some basic customizations:
And here is the live demo of the customized WooNuxt site: My Shop.

Progress

Feature	Ongoing Enhancements	In the Pipeline	In Progress	Done	Next
Performance	🔷			✅
SEO	🔷		✅	✅
Cart				✅
Search				✅
Shipping				✅
Checkout (Stripe, PayPal, Cash on Delivery)	🔷			✅	🔶
Filtering	🔷			✅
Wishlists				✅
Account				✅
Coupons				✅
Product Reviews			✅
Product Category Pages			✅
WooNuxt Settings Module	🔷		✅
Better TypeScript Support	🔷		✅
Mobile layout	🔷			✅
Countries & States Enums				✅
Cookie Popup & GDPR Compliance		✅
Progressive Web App (PWA)			✅
Queuing System (for checking out when the server is busy)		✅			🔶
Language Support (i18n)	🔷		✅

 

Required WordPress Plugins

Plugin Name	Description
WPGraphQL	A free, open-source plugin for WordPress
WooGraphQL	GraphQL API for WooCommerce
WPGraphQL Cors	Enable CORS for WPGraphQL

Note The the woonuxt-settings.zip plugin will help you install all the required plugins. WooGraphQL 0.13.0 and up is required to get the list of available countries and states. You can find the latest version of WooGraphQL here.

 

Payment Methods

Payment Method	Supported
Stripe	✅
PayPal Standard	✅
Cash on Delivery	✅

Required Environment Variables

GQL_HOST - The URL of your WordPress site. This is the only required environment variable. The WooNuxt Settings plugin will automatically populate the rest of the environment variables for you.

 

Tested up to:

Plugin/Software	Version
WordPress	6.6.1
WooCommerce	9.2.1
WPGraphQL	1.28.1
WooGraphQL	0.21.0
WPGraphQL CORS	2.1
Node	20.16.0
PHP	8.2

Current translations

Language	Code
English 🇺🇸	en
German 🇩🇪	de
Spanish 🇪🇸	es
French 🇫🇷	fr
Italian 🇮🇹	it
Portuguese 🇵🇹	pt

Local SSL Setup

• Install mkcert on your machine.
• Run mkcert localhost to generate a certificate for localhost. You should now have a localhost.pem and localhost-key.pem file in your current directory. See the image below for an example.
• Then run mkcert -install to install the certificate authority.
• Finally, run npm run dev:ssl to start the dev server with SSL.

Credits

This is an ongoing project but it wouldn’t be possible without the help of the following people: Jason Bahl & Geoffrey K Taylor for their ongoing work on WPGraphQL and WooGraphQL respectively. Also, a big thanks to the Nuxt team for all their hard work making Nuxt 3 a pleasure to build upon. And the WooCommerce team for making such a great e-commerce platform. Some other honorable mentions are Funkhaus for their work on the WPGraphQL Cors plugin. And the people who have contributed to making WooNuxt better every day, Alex Lykesas, Zack Hatlen, Galli, Guillaume Thank you all! 🙏

I don’t know where this project will go, but I’m excited to see what the future holds. If you have any questions or would like to contribute to the project please feel free to reach out to me on Twitter or GitHub.

 

Note If you’re looking for the old version of WooNuxt you can find it on the v2 branch.