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Hydrogen
Hydrogen is Shopify's React-based framework for building headless storefronts, paired with Oxygen, Shopify's edge hosting for Hydrogen apps.
It packages the hard parts of custom storefronts — cart, data fetching against the Storefront API, performance patterns — into a maintained framework with first-party hosting.
Hydrogen suits teams with React capability who need storefront freedom with Shopify's commerce core; it is the lowest-risk path to headless inside the Shopify ecosystem.
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