E-commerce apps are the backbone of the internet, and there are countless platforms you can use to build your next e-commerce app - from SaaS solutions to open-source frameworks. However, the Node & JavaScript community has been badly under-served, with a distinct lack of mature yet forward-looking solutions for custom e-commerce development. That's the situation I saw four years ago when I started to build Vendure, an open-source headless commerce framework built on Node with TypeScript. Since then it has gained traction with companies of all sizes, including Fortune 500 companies and rapidly-growing start-ups. In this talk I will give a bit of background on the project, dive in to some of the technical choices, and demonstrate how you can get up-and-running with full-stack headless commerce faster than you might imagine.