Supper Club × Headless Ecommerce with Shopify’s Josh Larson

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. Hasura - Sponsor With Hasura, you can get a fully managed, production-ready GraphQL API as a service to help you build modern apps faster. You can get started for free in 30 seconds, or if you want to try out the Standard tier for zero cost, use the code “TryHasura” at this link: hasura.info. We’ve also got an amazing selection of GraphQL tutorials at hasura.io/learn. Lightstep Incident Response - Sponsor Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial of Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Usage-based pricing on active services promotes collaboration across your entire team to build a culture of service ownership. Listeners of Syntax will also receive a free Lightstep Incident Response T-shirt after firing an alert or incident. Pay for the services you use, not the number of people on your team with Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial. Fire an alert or incident today and receive a free Lightstep Incident Response t-shirt. 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 ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× The Story Of by Vice Shameless Plugs @JPLHomer Shopify Editions Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets