2 years ago

Shopify has https://www.shopify.com/partners/blog/hydrogen-developer-preview a new React-based web development framework, called https://hydrogen.shopify.dev/. Hydrogen is similar to https://nextjs.org/, perhaps the most popular React framework, only it was built especially for the needs of e-commerce developers.

So I began by asking him why existing React frameworks — such as Next.js — were unable to meet their needs?

So if less complexity was required for Shopify developers, why not choose a framework based on https://thenewstack.io/how-web-components-are-used-at-github-and-salesforce/ — a growing web-native approach to creating components in web apps.

So it chose to build around React Server Components and create a “dynamic by default” framework.