Shopify Hydrogen
Shopify's official open-source framework for building fast, custom headless storefronts
- Best for
- Merchants and agencies who want a fully custom, high-performance storefront on top of Shopify's commerce backend rather than a theme.
- Skip if
- You want a simple themed Shopify store, or you're not building on the Shopify platform at all.
Hydrogen is Shopify's headless commerce framework, built on Remix, for developers who want a fully custom storefront instead of a themed Shopify store. It ships server-side rendering, built-in integrations for cart, checkout, search, customer accounts, and discounts, and pairs with Oxygen, Shopify's global edge hosting. It's free and open source, included on all Shopify plans above Starter.
Pros
- Backed and maintained directly by Shopify with deep platform integrations
- Free and open source, included on most Shopify plans
- Comes with Oxygen edge hosting purpose-built for storefront performance
Cons
- Locked into the Shopify platform - not a general-purpose e-commerce boilerplate
- Requires Remix/React knowledge and more setup than a themed store
- Not usable on the Shopify Starter plan
Features
What's in the box
- File uploads
- Search
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