Should You Use Shopify Hydrogen?

Shopify Hydrogen Development Agency

As Shopify’s native solution for building headless storefronts, Hydrogen makes it easier for brands to deliver high-performant and unique online stores, in record time.

What is Shopify Hydrogen?

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Hydrogen is Shopify’s newest toolkit for building headless storefronts. It simplifies building dynamic and high-performant commerce storefronts with a set of pre-built components, utilities, and best practices for SEO.

As a framework, it sits between Online Store 2.0 and entirely custom headless builds. With Hydrogen, brands have the freedom to customise and build anything they want, without leaving Shopify.

What is Oxygen?

Shopify Oxygen is a native hosting solution tailored for Hydrogen storefronts, simplifying the deployment and management of headless sites. Oxygen provides exceptional stability and scalability without the need for third-party hosting.

Why migrate to Hydrogen?

More flexibility for storytelling: With advanced CMS like Sanity, editors get a familiar page-building experience with more opportunity for on-brand customisation, including A/B testing, content scheduling, personalisation, and internationalisation.

Video showcasing Sanity Panel on Aether Apparel site

Faster load times: Skyrocket conversions with speeds that are unachievable on traditional Shopify. Highlights include background page preloading, and truly global distribution.

Migrate to headless without leaving Shopify: Hydrogen offers all the advantages of headless within the Shopify ecosystem. And Oxygen offers all the benefits of a modern and fast hosting architecture without adding external providers and extra cost.

Shopify administration panel showing Oxygen app

Complex use cases: Hydrogen lets you build anything that’s possible on the web. Dynamic product configurators, complex user journeys, live shopping.

Specific technical requirements: Technical limitations in current setup, or specific SEO and/or page speed requirements, Internationalisation, A/B testing, Personalisation.

We're Shopify Hydrogen experts.

Over the last 5+ years we made our as shopify headless ageny name creating sites for DTC leaders like Oura Ring, Magda Butrym, Aether, or Lift Foils. Recently we’ve build one of the first Shopify Hydrogen projects for Nour Hammour.

Hydrogen, while making it much faster to build a headless storefront, can still be challenging for agencies rooted in Shopify’s traditional way of building online stores. Ensure success by working with experienced development partner.

Official Lady Gaga website built with Shopify Hydrogen

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63%

Increase in conversion rate

128%

Increase in year-over-year sales

Performance and brand expression are key to engaging high-converting experiences. Commerce-UI consistently delivers on both, striking the perfect balance between functionality and aesthetics.

Ben Sehl
Product Lead at Shopify

Our Shopify Hydrogen Development Services

Shopify Hydrogen Consulting

We help you make an informed decision about whether Hydrogen and Oxygen are the right technologies for your brand, based on your vision and business requirements.

Liquid to Hydrogen migration

As experts in both headless and Shopify, we help you smoothly migrate from your existing Liquid theme to a Hydrogen storefront. This includes gradual migration and full builds.

Magento/Salesforce Commerce to Hydrogen

Whether you’re on Shopify, or migrate from other platforms – including Salesforce Commerce, Magento, Commerce Tools – we’re a technology team who’d support you with every step of the way.