as a developer wanting to understand shopify I was having a hard time getting my bearings in all parts of the shopify ecosystem, like the CLI, polaris and other tools, and how I needed them or not for using the Storefront API. I couldn't even find out if it was available on all tiers or not. This video does such a great job summing it all up! thanks a lot
I would just check the relevant page of the documentation. shopify.dev/custom-storefronts/oxygen As present, it still reads: "Oxygen is available to only Shopify Plus plans and Shopify Plus Partner sandbox stores, but will be available for Shopify plans and Advanced plans soon."
I can't seem to find the answer to this anywhere. We are about to build a custom shopify app for our store only (custom cart flow for subscriptions and then a small app for tracking customer activities). Do you know if it is possible to build just the app in Hydrogen and keep our 2.0 Theme store for the rest of the website? I would like to get the app done first then transition the website but seems like you have to do both.
I think you can serve both on separate domains but I don't think you can pick and choose parts of the same website to be served by Hydrogen and other parts by a theme.
For anyone looking to build a shopify store with Hydrogen, I would not to do so until the next stable re-lease with Remix integrated. They're rebuilding Hydrogen after acquiring Remix. Stick with templates for now.
is it possible to build just themes with hydrogen? Like deliver to the client merchant as a theme rather than a full app? Like I just wanted them to customise it as they would with a basic dawn theme ? Thank you!
haha no. This is a completely different paradigm. If you want the client to have a customiser, it needs to be a theme. This actually reminds of one of the downsides of Hydrogen 🤔
@@CodewithChristheFreelancer Shopify can easily create a customizer like experience for hydrogen. Settings schema is just a JSON object, The Idea is to pull settings_schema.json as object & use it in hydrogen to change code based on settings...(example: logo to left or right) Section & blocks are difficult cause do not fit in components paradigm Your Thoughts?
Would you say that Hydrogen is stable enough now and will be so also in the future, that if we as a team take on Shopify development with Hydrogen we should see at least a solid 3 to 5 years of development from Shopify going forward? Currently building a quite large ecommerce solution with Shopify Liquid but would like the freedom that seems to come from something like Hydrogen.
Good question! It's really hard to tell but it looks promising so far given that Hydrogen has been a part of two Unite announcements in a row and was presented by the founder and CEO himself. I'd honestly be surprised if they canned the project after two years. Seeing it as a sales channel now in 2022, it seems like they are pretty serious about it.
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as a developer wanting to understand shopify I was having a hard time getting my bearings in all parts of the shopify ecosystem, like the CLI, polaris and other tools, and how I needed them or not for using the Storefront API. I couldn't even find out if it was available on all tiers or not. This video does such a great job summing it all up! thanks a lot
btw, is it already available outside shopify plus? is there a place where i can check this info?
I would just check the relevant page of the documentation.
shopify.dev/custom-storefronts/oxygen
As present, it still reads: "Oxygen is available to only Shopify Plus plans and Shopify Plus Partner sandbox stores, but will be available for Shopify plans and Advanced plans soon."
It's good to see you Chris!
Really helpful for whole scenario only in 6 minutes you nailed it chris 👏
Glad you enjoyed it @muhammadtalhaamjad4631
I can't seem to find the answer to this anywhere. We are about to build a custom shopify app for our store only (custom cart flow for subscriptions and then a small app for tracking customer activities). Do you know if it is possible to build just the app in Hydrogen and keep our 2.0 Theme store for the rest of the website? I would like to get the app done first then transition the website but seems like you have to do both.
I think you can serve both on separate domains but I don't think you can pick and choose parts of the same website to be served by Hydrogen and other parts by a theme.
@@CodewithChristheFreelancer ok thank you! That makes sense.
Finally you are here
Does your course use the latest version of Hydrogen, with Remix?
The course was released late last year (around the time this video was published).
For anyone looking to build a shopify store with Hydrogen, I would not to do so until the next stable re-lease with Remix integrated. They're rebuilding Hydrogen after acquiring Remix. Stick with templates for now.
is it possible to build just themes with hydrogen? Like deliver to the client merchant as a theme rather than a full app? Like I just wanted them to customise it as they would with a basic dawn theme ?
Thank you!
haha no. This is a completely different paradigm. If you want the client to have a customiser, it needs to be a theme.
This actually reminds of one of the downsides of Hydrogen 🤔
@@CodewithChristheFreelancer I see.. thank you for your reply 🙏
@@CodewithChristheFreelancer
Shopify can easily create a customizer like experience for hydrogen.
Settings schema is just a JSON object,
The Idea is to pull settings_schema.json as object & use it in hydrogen to change code based on settings...(example: logo to left or right)
Section & blocks are difficult cause do not fit in components paradigm
Your Thoughts?
@@KeshavKumar-xv8oq This might actually be a good business idea ---to build a WYSIWYG style editor using Hydrogen
Can we create custom storefront using NextJs and React as well?
Yes but then you would be using NextJS and not Hydrogen.
Would you say that Hydrogen is stable enough now and will be so also in the future, that if we as a team take on Shopify development with Hydrogen we should see at least a solid 3 to 5 years of development from Shopify going forward? Currently building a quite large ecommerce solution with Shopify Liquid but would like the freedom that seems to come from something like Hydrogen.
Good question! It's really hard to tell but it looks promising so far given that Hydrogen has been a part of two Unite announcements in a row and was presented by the founder and CEO himself. I'd honestly be surprised if they canned the project after two years. Seeing it as a sales channel now in 2022, it seems like they are pretty serious about it.
should someone new to this start with hydrogen? I've cloned the dawn theme and played around
Depends on your goals. If you're asking the question, the answer is probably not.
@@CodewithChristheFreelancer my goal would be to work professionally (later freelance)
In that case, I'd say no. Since I made the course, no one has asked me to do a Hydrogen site for them.
Does your course use the latest version of Hydrogen, with Remix?
I saw, there has noting discuss about remix.
At this point in time, no updates have been made to the class since it's initial release in November last year.