hydrogen VS Medusa

This acquisition is very much in the context of https://hydrogen.shopify.dev/roadmap/#first-quarter and https://github.com/Shopify/hydrogen - Shopify very much wants to move to the modern era.

And to address your point, it's not gaslighting to say that React enables interactions that would be essentially impossible if restricted to server-side templating. But there's certainly some degree to which trendiness and a desire to attract developers into their ecosystem is driving this as well.

I would say its main selling point is obviously the integration with Shopify. It comes with hooks, components and types to make it really easy to interact with the Shopify API. (They also use an XState state machine for the cart.)

Shopify's got their own headless framework for storefronts built on React called Hydrogen. Just recently came out of beta. Has a built in React hook for GraphQL queries to the storefront.

All the activity around V8 Isolates + "workers" is so cool-- exceptional performance, don't need to think about regions, and CDN-like benefits

Shopify's new store-builder thinks this way too: https://github.com/Shopify/hydrogen

Not sure what documentation you're looking at, because we have a ton here: https://shopify.dev/custom-storefronts/hydrogen

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You can learn more about Medusa by checking their GitHub repository.

Hello, I'm Nick, co-founder of Medusa. In keeping with our tradition, we are excited to share our progress on our open-source commerce SDK with this wonderful community. We eagerly want your feedback!

If you have everything installed, follow these steps to set up your Medusa project.

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Nick, co-founder of Medusa, here. As per tradition now, we love to share the progress we make on our open-source commerce SDK with this amazing community. Always keen to hear your feedback!