What's the Hype about Shopify Hydrogen?

As new technology emerges in your technical stack, it’s important to not only learn them in theory, but to find practical ways to implement the knowledge you’re learning. You could either spend your time making another Todo List or Tic Tac Toe implementation, or dive into a rapidly expanding eCommerce market with the new Shopify Hydrogen Framework, built on upcoming React 18 Features like React Server Components.

Links

• Episode Page
• Twitter Owl Creek
• Twitter Thomas Hintz

Show Notes

• Keeping Ahead of the Hiring Curve
• Practice makes Perfect
• Story Time on “Practice” React Applications we Made
• Transition: Making the Practical even more Practical
• Capitalizing on the eCommerce Industry
  • https://acquireconvert.com/shopify-statistics/
• Shopify is Eating their Ecosystem
  • https://twitter.com/theryanking/status/1497732269632598018
• Shopify Partners Program
  • https://www.shopify.com/partners
• Shopify for Developers
  • APIs + Graphql
    • https://shopify.dev/api/admin-rest#top
    • https://shopify.dev/api/admin-graphql#top
  • App Bridge
    • https://shopify.dev/apps/tools/app-bridge
  • Polaris Component Library
    • https://polaris.shopify.com/?shpxid=796e493c-6D49-4898-EB5D-81EF16546D4A
    • Components included in Hydrogen
  • Liquid
    • https://shopify.dev/api/liquid
    • https://shopify.dev/themes/tools/dawn
  • Hydrogen
    • https://shopify.dev/custom-storefronts/hydrogen
• What is Hydrogen
  • Why Hydrogen?
    • https://shopify.dev/custom-storefronts/hydrogen/getting-started
  • Features of the Hydrogen Framework
    • https://shopify.dev/custom-storefronts/hydrogen/framework
    • React
      • React Server Components
        • https://shopify.dev/custom-storefronts/hydrogen/framework/react-server-components
    • Vite
      • https://vitejs.dev/guide/why.html#why-not-bundle-with-esbuild
      • SSR
    • Tailwind
      • https://tailwindcss.com/
      • Talk about Chakra UI here too
  • Hydrogen UI Components
• Hosting with Oxygen

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