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.

Key takeaways

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

Headless commerce with Shopify Hydrogen and Vite, Fran Dios, ViteConf 2022

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