I've been building frontends for a while now, and one thing that still surprises me is how much infrastructure we accept as a given for small e-commerce projects. A database. An admin panel. A CMS subscription. A backend to glue it all together. For a curated catalog of 10 to 50 products, that's a lot of moving parts. I wanted to see how far I could go in the other direction. The result is AURORA Commerce — a Nuxt 4 storefront where products live in YAML files, payments go through Stripe, and the infrastructure cost is zero. Here's how I built it and why it might be the right approach for your next project.…