In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Josh Larson from Shopify about headless ecommerce, including Hydrogen from Shopify, how integrations work with Shopify, and what the tech stack is behind Hydrogen.

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Show Notes

• 00:38 Welcome
• 01:12 Guest introduction
• 03:16 What is Hydrogen from Shopify?
• Hydrogen

Shopify Oxygen

11:23 Why would you want to go headless?

15:26 Sponsor: Hasura

16:56 Where does custom logic fit?

18:45 What is the stack behind Hydrogen?

24:16 Sponsor: Lightstep Incident Response

25:33 How much code is JavaScript vs React?

33:43 How do integrations work?

38:28 Supper Club Questions

In Bed By 7pm VS Code Theme

Zsh

Hyper

Laravel

Vite

Cloudflare Workers

Rust

Rust for JS

48:10 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

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• The Story Of by Vice

Shameless Plugs

• @JPLHomer

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