Architecture deep-dive: Prebit Commerce Engine, Boron Framework, .bit Theme Engine, SDK, CLI, and App Platform vs WooCommerce's API and app ecosystem.
Philosophy contrast: Prebit offers a fully managed, headless-ready TypeScript workflow; WooCommerce relies on self-managed legacy PHP and fragmented plugins.
Prebit's core API layer — typed REST APIs for products, orders, inventory, customers, discounts, fulfillment, and analytics. Event-driven with a durable outbox for reliable downstream delivery.
Prebit's Next.js-powered rendering engine for web storefronts. Uses Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) to serve instant static HTML from Cloudflare edge caches while streaming dynamic UI islands — outperforming Shopify Liquid with sub-100ms TTFB.
Prebit's Expo & React Native framework for native mobile app development. Powers high-performance iOS and Android shopping apps with native navigation, offline cache, and direct integration with Prebit Commerce Engine APIs.
Prebit's compiled template language. Unlike Liquid's runtime interpolation, Bit compiles to a deterministic AST with a formal grammar — enabling Monaco completions, static checks, and safer AI-assisted editing.
A fully typed client SDK for both storefront and server contexts. Exposes commerce primitives (cart, products, search, checkout) with full type inference — no runtime surprises.
Local development tool for theme development, app validation, and deployment. The `validate` command runs the same manifest/scan checks the App Platform review system uses.
OAuth authorization-code + PKCE, scoped API access, HMAC-signed webhooks, Ed25519-signed releases, and a sandboxed extension runtime.
Legacy PHP-based REST API. Functional but often bloated with plugin data.
Classic server-side PHP templates. Powerful but prone to breaking during updates.
Community-driven GraphQL layer for headless WordPress setups.
Highly customizable via PHP hooks, but often fragile and slow.
Command-line interface for managing WordPress installations.
Massive open-source plugin ecosystem (50,000+ plugins), with varying quality and security.