Magento PWA Development

Adobe still publishes PWA Studio and its documentation for Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce, and it is the base of every PWA we run. Adobe has also added Adobe Commerce Storefront, built on Edge Delivery Services with drop-in components for cart, checkout, product pages and accounts. Which to use depends on the store; we say which before the build, and we keep PWA Studio storefronts upgraded with each Magento release either way.

Hyvä if you want Core Web Vitals passed on the theme model you already have, with your extensions and a shorter build. A PWA if you need an app-like experience, tolerance for a weak signal, or several frontends on one backend, such as a company store network beside a consumer site. The discovery step answers it for your catalog and your team, in writing, and we build either.

The discovery and the parity list take two to three weeks. The build depends on how many gaps the list shows: a store on simple and configurable products with a standard checkout is a matter of months, a B2B store with approval flows, grouped products and ERP sync takes longer. Stran's multi-store estate went from plan to rollout in three months; a build with more custom components takes more. The estimate names the number.

Fixed scope after discovery. The parity list decides the price, because every gap in the toolkit is a component to build and test, and no two catalogs have the same gaps. There is no price list on this site; the written estimate comes after the read of your store.

If the storefront renders HTML for crawlers, keeps the URL structure or redirects it, and carries the structured data across, yes. A client-rendered PWA with none of that loses rankings after launch, which is the most common PWA failure we are asked to recover. SEO and rendering checks are a launch gate in our process, not an afterthought.

Yes. We read the repository and the Luma store it was meant to replace inside two business days, list the missing features, and give you a fixed-scope first week to stabilise and a plan to finish. The Magento project rescue page describes the terms, and the PWA work is done by the same team that builds our own.

Backend extensions keep working, because the PWA talks to Magento over GraphQL and the backend logic is untouched. Frontend extensions, anything that added a widget or a block to Luma, do not carry over; each one is either rebuilt as a component or dropped from the parity list on purpose. The discovery step lists which is which before the estimate.

Yes, and they are usually the reason a store needs one. Company accounts, shared catalogs, quotes, purchase orders, requisition lists and approval routing from Adobe Commerce's B2B module are exposed through GraphQL and built as storefront components. Department selection and manager approval at checkout for Clean Harbors and the cash and check approval step for USS On Demand are two examples on this site.

Yes. That is one of the main reasons to choose a PWA: Culture Pop runs a partner ordering hub and a consumer site on one platform, and Stran's estate replaced two legacy platforms with one multi-store backend. Each storefront has its own theme and routing; the catalog, customers and orders live once.

It is upgraded with it. PWA Studio and the GraphQL schema move with each Magento release, so a storefront left behind stops working after a backend upgrade. We keep the two in step, test the storefront on staging with every release and patch, and that is part of the support that follows every build.

No, you do. The storefront runs on your hosting or on Adobe Commerce Cloud alongside the backend, or on a CDN edge for the static build, and the code lives in your repository. We set it up, document it and support it; you own it.

Only if it is budgeted. We set a bundle size and a Core Web Vitals target per page at the start and measure on real mid-range devices before launch; a PWA that ships without a budget is often slower than the Luma store it replaced. The free Magento audit measures your current storefront if you want a baseline first.