Hydrogen
Hydrogen lets you build faster headless storefronts in less time, on Shopify.
Overview
Hydrogen is Shopify's solution for headless commerce. It provides developers with a set of tools, utilities, and examples for building performant commerce applications. While primarily designed to be used with Shopify's full stack web framework Remix, Hydrogen also offers a portable React library that can be used with other supporting frameworks.
Features
- Opinionated tools: Hydrogen provides a set of opinionated tools for building a commerce application with Remix.
- Shopify-specific components: The Hydrogen React library offers a collection of Shopify-specific commerce components, hooks, and utilities.
- Integration with Shopify CLI: The Shopify CLI extension allows for seamless integration with Hydrogen.
- Project generation from the command line: Generate a new Hydrogen project using the command line.
- Automatic code generation: Hydrogen includes a codegen package that automatically generates types for Storefront API queries.
- Remix adapter: The Remix adapter enables Hydrogen to run on the Oxygen runtime.
- Local runtime for Hydrogen apps: The mini-oxygen package provides a local runtime environment that simulates the Oxygen production environment.
- React
React is a widely used JavaScript library for building user interfaces and single-page applications. It follows a component-based architecture and uses a virtual DOM to efficiently update and render UI components
- Remix
Remix is a modern JavaScript framework that focuses on building fast and performant web applications. It emphasizes a combination of server-rendered content and client-side interactivity, offering a robust architecture for creating scalable and maintainable projects.
- Shopify
Shopify offers headless commerce capabilities through its Storefront API, allowing developers to use their own front-end technology to create custom storefronts or sales channels while using Shopify as a back-end system
- Eslint
ESLint is a linter for JavaScript that analyzes code to detect and report on potential problems and errors, as well as enforce consistent code style and best practices, helping developers to write cleaner, more maintainable code.
- Typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, providing optional static typing, classes, interfaces, and other features that help developers write more maintainable and scalable code. TypeScript's static typing system can catch errors at compile-time, making it easier to build and maintain large applications.
