Shopify and Vercel are rebuilding Hydrogen for faster storefronts

This talk announces the partnership between Shopify and Vercel to rebuild the Hydrogen framework. The key technical contributions are making Hydrogen open-source and runtime-agnostic, allowing developers to use frameworks like Next.js, Nuxt, and Svelte. It introduces a three-layer strategy (core, client, server) to provide best practices like type-safe API clients and integrated cart state out-of-the-box, reducing the need for custom glue code.