My thoughts after trying to port a Shopify store from NextJS to Shopify Hydrogen

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  • hydrogen

    Hydrogen lets you build faster headless storefronts in less time, on Shopify. (by Shopify)

    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.)

  • vite

    Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!

    From an architectural perspective, it heavily relies on React server components and Vite. React server components allow for fetching data right in the React component. It is run on the server and streamed to the client. You can safely use secrets there since only the resulting HTML gets streamed to the client. (React server components were just released in NextJS 13 a few days ago.). React server components require quite some mind shift because previously components were primarily run on the client (neither a pro nor a con of Hydrogen for me since it's related to React).

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    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.

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