Updates

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!

Working with the Storefront API is the fundamental step in building an ecommerce app with Hydrogen. Leveraging Remix’s `context` object, Hydrogen injects a Storefront API client that makes it simple, clear, and quick to get straight to your queries and mutations.

Let’s break it down step by step.

The February ‘23 release of Hydrogen will bring significant advancements in developer experience and performance, and a suite of new tools specific to Shopify storefronts. Much of what’s unlocked is thanks to leveraging Remix (now a part of Shopify!) as a foundation to our stack.

Today we’ll dive into the four core changes coming to Hydrogen: data loading, routing, error handling, and mutations.

Each month, we’ll provide more details around what you can expect from Hydrogen 2, including a newly built demo store that takes full advantage of our improved architecture and expands the example set to a broad range of advanced features.