Welcome to This Week in eCommerce Tech! In this edition, we'll look closer at Kibo Commerce, a platform known for its rich functionality and deep extensibility. Plus, we'll discuss the latest in frameworks, languages, and open-source projects and explore the latest news and events shaping the eCommerce landscape. Let's dive in!

🧰 Cool Tools

• Kibo Commerce, known for its balance of rich functionality and deep extensibility, has released two new product features: Fulfillment Substitutions and Order Routing Extensibility.
  • Substitutions enable organizations to pre-designate a substitution strategy for products that need a substitute during fulfillment, removing the guesswork from fulfillers, protecting order revenue, and delivering customer expectations on time.
  • Order Routing Extensibility allows daily business users to extend the data in the platform by creating custom attributes for a product, location, order, or customer to optimize order routing rules that meet unique requirements and financial goals and drive loyal customer experiences. (Link)

 

🏡 Platforms

• Vercel Cron Jobs! This can be paired with Vercel Functions (Link)

 

🧑‍💻 Frameworks, Languages & Open Source

• iPadOS 16.4 beta 1 support for Web Push and other features for Home Screen web apps.
  • The most exciting thing about this release is the ability to push native push notifications to a user's device from the web for Home Screen web apps. (Link)
• Next.js 13.2 (Link)
  • Built-in SEO with Metadata API
  • Route Handlers
  • MDX for Server Components
  • Rust MDX Parser
  • Statically Typed Links
  • Next.js Cache
  • Turbopack Improvements
• ts-reset (Link)
  • TypeScript's built-in typings are not perfect. ts-reset makes them better.

 

🗞️ In The News

• Talking Shop: Kibo and PeakActivity CEO Manish Hirapara discuss Composable Commerce and how companies leverage this architecture to deliver better customer experiences. (Link)

 

🎙️ Events

• Join us at Shoptalk: Stop by Kibo's booth (#810) on March 27th and 28th for a free coffee, and connect with a PeakActivity team member for a demo of the Kibo platform!

 

🌍 Job Opportunities