David Witt

David Witt

David is a Developer Advocate at Shopify, and previously a tech lead for an ecommerce agency. He is new to Shopify, but brings ten years of ecommerce and software experience with him to help foster relationships with Shopify and the developers using the platform.
Build a Product Page with Shopify’s Hydrogen Framework
React Advanced Conference 2022React Advanced Conference 2022
81 min
Build a Product Page with Shopify’s Hydrogen Framework
WorkshopFree
Get hands on with Hydrogen, a React-based framework for building headless storefronts. Hydrogen is built for Shopify commerce with all the features you need for a production-ready storefront. It provides a quick start, build-fast environment so you can focus on the fun stuff - building unique commerce experiences. In this workshop we’ll scaffold a new storefront and rapidly build a product page. We’ll cover how to get started, file-based routing, fetching data from the Storefront API, Hydrogen’s built-in components and how to apply styling with Tailwind.You will know:- Get started with the hello-world template on StackBlitz- File-based routing to create a /products/example route- Dynamic routing /products/:handle- Hit the Storefront API with GraphQL- Move the query into the Hydrogen app- Update the query to fetch a product by handle- Display title, price, image & description.- Tailwind styling- Variant picker and buy now button- Bonus if there’s time: Collections page
Prerequisites: - A Chromium-based browser (StackBlitz)- Ideally experience with React. A general web development background would be fine.