Open-source headless storefront for Magento 2
The Fastest Magento 2 Storefront.
Freento React Theme is an open-source headless React storefront built for one thing: pages that open instantly and clicks that feel immediate — even on a slow mobile network. Your Magento backend stays; your frontend becomes instant.
Measured live · react-m2-theme.freento.comLive store
- Optimized for slow connections
- ~6 KB · category image 300×300
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Ours vs the Rest
Freento React Theme
OursOnly 1 blocking request · ready HTML in ≈0.1 s · next pages prefetched, ≈0 ms wait
PWA Studio (Venia)
Other headless5+ blocking requests · 10+ requests in total
Luma Theme
Standard MagentoFPC miss (often): 1–2 s render + heavy AJAX regardless of FPC
| Criterion | Freento React Theme | PWA Studio (Venia) & other headless | Luma — standard Magento |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can it be fast? | ●●●●●Yes — fast out of the box, and it stays fast: just 1 blocking request per page and smart preloading of the next one. | ●●●●●Hardly. 10+ requests per page put heavy load on the server — and when the user clicks the next page before the previous one has finished loading, requests pile up and navigation gets slower still. | ●●●●●Only behind a perfectly tuned Full Page Cache — rare in practice. Cart, AJAX and similar requests bypass the cache and stay slow anyway. |
| Can AI develop it? | ●●●●●Yes — a compact, uniform codebase that ships with Claude Code skills. An AI assistant navigates all of it. | ●●●●●Weaker — a large, fragmented codebase spread across dozens of packages; AI assistants struggle to hold it. | ●●●●●Worst case — PHP templates, XML layouts and Knockout.js legacy; slow going even for AI. |
| Faster development, cheaper support? | ●●●●●Yes — Magento upgrades get much simpler with a decoupled frontend, and the AI-friendly codebase cuts development and support time further. | ●●●●●Partly — upgrades also get simpler thanks to the decoupled frontend, but development itself stays slow and expensive. | ●●●●●No — the theme is tied to the Magento core: every upgrade drags the whole frontend along, and support stays heavy. |
| Google PageSpeed out of the box (mobile / desktop) | ●●●●●100 / 100 | ●●●●●65 / 45 | ●●●●●60 / 90 |
| Images & static resources optimization | ●●●●●WebP/AVIF only, enforced by the editor. Brotli level 11 at build time, modern minification, critical CSS inlined. | ●●●●●Legacy PNG/JPEG — 30–70% heavier than WebP/AVIF. Standard bundler minification; no built-in Brotli precompression or critical CSS. | ●●●●●Legacy PNG/JPEG — 30–70% heavier than WebP/AVIF. Basic Magento merge/minify, no critical CSS — heavy render-blocking bundles. |
| CMS content | ●●●●●Baked into HTML — 0 runtime requests to Magento. | ●●●●●Fetched via GraphQL at runtime — extra requests that take extra time. | ●●●●●Page Builder, server-rendered. |
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