How We Built Hydrogen: A React Framework for Building Custom Storefronts

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  • lagon

    Deploy Serverless Functions at the Edge. Current status: Alpha

  • rfcs

    RFCs for changes to React (by reactjs)

    Correct, we're shipping with an initial version of React Server Components (RSC) that works in Vite and uses file suffixes. Hydrogen provides missing pieces to the current version of RSC, like data fetching and other dev tooling.

    We're working to align with Vercel on improving the conventions of server modules (e.g. dropping the filename suffix): https://github.com/reactjs/rfcs/pull/189#issuecomment-111648... and we anticipate to release future versions of Hydrogen and Next.js that use something like boundary annotations instead.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  • hydrogen-vercel-edge

    Deploy a Hydrogen storefront to Vercel Edge Functions

    Yep, we're planning to offer a `@shopify/hydrogen-ui` package with useful components and hooks. That work is in progress but not quite ready.

    We have a working prototype of Hydrogen deploying to Vercel, and we need to formalize it into our official documentation: https://github.com/frandiox/hydrogen-vercel-edge

  • solid-site

    Code that powers the SolidJS.com platform.

    React is * old * (in the frontend world), stable and very very well known. It is a solid, responsible choice to build your framework on top of React in 2022.

    You can upgrade a 7 year old React app with very little fuss. Unfortunately, you cannot say the same about Vue or any of the modern libraries. They also have no track record to indicate they will exist 10 years down the line, but I'm pretty sure my React apps will still be fine.

    That being said, I'm very excited about SolidJS[1] and any of the other modern libraries that use JSX.

    [1] https://www.solidjs.com

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