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Hydrogen

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Updated: 21 May 2025
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Hydrogen lets you build faster headless storefronts in less time, on Shopify.

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Overview

Hydrogen is Shopify’s solution for headless commerce. It provides developers with a set of tools, utilities, and examples for building performant commerce applications. While primarily designed to be used with Shopify’s full stack web framework Remix, Hydrogen also offers a portable React library that can be used with other supporting frameworks.

Features

  • Opinionated tools: Hydrogen provides a set of opinionated tools for building a commerce application with Remix.
  • Shopify-specific components: The Hydrogen React library offers a collection of Shopify-specific commerce components, hooks, and utilities.
  • Integration with Shopify CLI: The Shopify CLI extension allows for seamless integration with Hydrogen.
  • Project generation from the command line: Generate a new Hydrogen project using the command line.
  • Automatic code generation: Hydrogen includes a codegen package that automatically generates types for Storefront API queries.
  • Remix adapter: The Remix adapter enables Hydrogen to run on the Oxygen runtime.
  • Local runtime for Hydrogen apps: The mini-oxygen package provides a local runtime environment that simulates the Oxygen production environment.

Installation

Requirements:

  • Node.js version 16.14.0 or higher
  • npm (or any other package manager of choice, such as yarn or pnpm)

To install the latest version of Hydrogen, run the following command in your terminal:

npm install @shopify/hydrogen

To run the local development server, use the following command:

npm run dev

Once the server is running, you can access your Hydrogen app at http://localhost:3000.

For more detailed documentation on Hydrogen, refer to the Hydrogen docs.

Summary

Hydrogen is Shopify’s stack for headless commerce, offering a range of tools and utilities for building dynamic and performant commerce applications. It provides opinionated tools for building with Remix, a React library for use with various frameworks, and integration with Shopify CLI. Hydrogen also includes packages for code generation, Remix adapter, and a local runtime environment.