Updates

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.

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.