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Headless commerce with Shopify Hydrogen and Vite, Fran Dios, ViteConf 2022
Shopify Hydrogen, a headless commerce framework built on React, leverages Vite for fast builds and features a plugin system for customization and extension, perfect for high-performance and SEO-friendly online commerce solutions.
- Shopify Hydrogen is a framework for building reusable React components for online commerce
- Hydrogen is designed to be a headless platform, allowing for customization and integration with other services
- It uses Vite as its build tool, which provides fast and efficient builds
- Hydrogen comes with a built-in routing system that uses the file system to determine the route
- Server components can make fetch requests to external resources and respond with HTML
- Client components can be hydrated with data from server components
- Hydrogen has a plugin system that allows developers to extend the framework with custom functionality
- Plugins can export route files, middleware, and other custom functionality
- Hydrogen has a strong focus on performance and SEO, with features like static site generation and caching
- It also provides a set of UI components that can be used to build custom storefronts
- Hydrogen is designed to be highly customizable and scalable, with a strong focus on online commerce use cases
- It is currently in alpha version and is expected to be released soon