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Hydrogen

The Shopify stack for headless commerce

by Shopify · Launched: June 2022 · Free plan available.

3.9 (9) on Shopify
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About Hydrogen

Fast-track your storefront build with Hydrogen, our React-based headless commerce stack—now built on the open-source React Router framework. Optimized for performance with advancements like Optimistic UI, nested routes, and progressive enhancement. Unlock new levels of productivity with starter templates, pre-built components, hooks, and utilities all mapped to Shopify APIs. Then deploy your headless storefront at no cost on Oxygen, our global hosting solution. Use commerce components that map to Storefront & Customer Account API resources Build efficiently with in-IDE linting, TypeScript, and IntelliSense support Render at the edge for faster performance, flexible caching, and built-in SEO Integrate third-party apps, build with any React framework, and host anywhere Push-to-deploy support with Oxygen, Shopify’s globally distributed hosting layer Show more Show less

Last verified: July 17, 2026 · Fresh

App details

Developer
Shopify
Category
Marketing & conversion
Pricing
Free plan available
Launched
June 2022
Rating
3.9 (9) on Shopify

Key features

  • Accelerate development with all the tooling you need for production-ready headless storefronts
Integrations with:

Algolia, Builder.io, Contentful, Klaviyo, Nosto, Sanity

1 plan · starts free

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Plans and prices as listed on the Shopify App Store.

Ratings & reviews

based on 12 Shopify App Store reviews

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— goodrichland
Shopify Hydrogen is perfect for our multi-brand monorepo. The framework's flexibility enabled our sophisticated architecture with brand-specific packages, shared components, and isolated routing policies while maintaining strict TypeScript safety. React Router 7 integration works seamlessly with our i18n system across 5 locales, and Oxygen's edge network delivers fast global performance. For compl...
— Zippex Bedding
Shopify Hydrogen es excepcional. El rendimiento con SSR y edge computing es impresionante, resultando en cargas súper rápidas. La experiencia de desarrollo con React, Remix y TypeScript es excelente, con componentes optimizados que ahorran mucho tiempo. La integración con la Storefront API de Shopify funciona perfectamente, y tienes control total sobre UI/UX, a diferencia de los temas tradicionale...
— Wooly Bedding
Fantastic work from Shopify on this. Gives you the true freedom you may want to build a store that meets your needs.
— ProTakeOut™
very cool, let us build powerful eCommerce platform, and have a fully customizable front end, with the latest and more powerful techs
— Trybz
Great application to build custom storefronts and definitely the future of commerce apps in Shopify
— Bohét
Very nice module from Shopify. I began to use it last week and it works perfectly so far! You can also connect the app with all the credentials within the app. Super nice!
— RedOne Music Canada
Gotta give 5 stars for the team who helps me with stupid questions on discord. Also the review needs to be 100 characters.
— Fulcra
still very limiting, no standard index.html, deployments fail for light reasons, CLI confusing/unhelpful, product imports even worse.
— Velora
Difícil de configurar
— Guzzobr
It's unbelievable how I'm unable to even create a storefront. There's no support whatsoever, not even for Shopify Plus customers. The shopifydevs Discord invite from the Hydrogen website doesn't even work. FYI, the error displayed from the storefrontCreate API response states: "The Hydrogen app is not installed." This is also quite ironic since you have to install the app to even try to create a...
— Hesacore Grip
Docs suck and aren't clear
— CATTLEYA THE LABEL

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