# Best-in-Class Developer Experience with Vite and Hydrogen

DevFeed: [Best-in-Class Developer Experience with Vite and Hydrogen](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/best-in-class-developer-experience-with-vite-and-hydrogen-1368.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/developer-experience-with-hydrogen-and-vite>)

Author: Fran Dios

Published: 2022-03-31T13:00:02Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering.md>), [Shopify Engineering - Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering-shopify-engineering.md>)

Topics: [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>), [modern web development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/modern-web-development.md>)

Tags: [browsers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/browsers.md>), [developer-experience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-experience.md>), [framework](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/framework.md>), [frontend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/frontend.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react.md>), [shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shopify.md>), [tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tooling.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains how Hydrogen combines React and Vite for Shopify storefronts, emphasizing modern browser capabilities and developer experience. It contrasts traditional bundling with ES Modules-based tooling and describes how Vite reduces development-time bundling to speed refreshes.

## Source excerpt

Hydrogen is a framework that combines React and Vite for creating custom storefronts on Shopify. It maximizes performance for end-users and provides a best-in-class developer experience for you and your team. Since it focuses on evergreen browsers, Hydrogen can leverage modern capabilities, best practices, and the latest tooling in web development to bring the future of ecommerce closer. Creating a framework requires a lot of choices for frontend tooling. One major part of it is the bundler.