Updates

See the latest product improvements, feature releases, and roadmap updates to our Hydrogen + Oxygen stack

March 7, 2024

March 2024 release: Vite, `env push`, GitHub deploy comments

Today, we’re releasing a bunch of new Hydrogen and Oxygen features, all part of our continuing quest to make your developer experience faster and more flexible. Some of these new features are still unstable, but we want to get them into your hands early so you can provide feedback.

Try out new features like experimental support for Vite in local development, a new env push command to upload your local environment variables to Oxygen, and GitHub deployment comments on PRs in your linked Hydrogen repo. Plus, learn about how we're moving Hydrogen to a new monthly release cadence.

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October 3, 2023

Improving Data Handling in Hydrogen and Remix

At Shopify we spend a lot of time helping merchants build more performant web applications. More often than not, performance starts with how data is loaded onto each of your pages. In this blog post, we'll dive into different strategies for loading and caching data. By getting these right, you can make your webpage faster and more user-friendly.
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July 27, 2023

Summer '23 Editions: Fast, flexible, future-proof—How we’re evolving Hydrogen

It’s been just over a year since Hydrogen 1.0 shipped — and what a year. There are now thousands of merchants building with the Hydrogen and Oxygen stack, and hundreds already running in production today, processing over $1 billion in sales. We’re thrilled with the enthusiasm and feedback from the growing number of merchants, developers, and agencies that have built this community with us.

Our vision for Hydrogen is to let you spend less time building boilerplate code, and more time building your brand. We’ve made a lot of progress in pursuit of that vision in the last few months, and there’s more to come soon. Let’s take a look at where we are today, and where we’re going next.

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February 9, 2023

Winter '23 Editions: Remixing Hydrogen

At Shopify, we are passionate about helping you build the best commerce experiences on the web. Which is why we are super excited to partner with the Remix team in rewriting Hydrogen from the ground up. It took a couple of iterations and some critical feedback to land on the right abstraction, and we are ready to share how we got here!

The new Hydrogen is a set of tools, utilities, and best-in-class examples for building a commerce application with Remix. But fundamentally, Hydrogen is simply Remix. If you already know how to build a great experience in Remix, Hydrogen is only going to make that easier.
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