Hydrogen developer preview update: July 8, 2026

The Hydrogen developer preview adds new capabilities to the toolkit and extends the ways developers can build Shopify storefronts:

• Storefront API caching for catalog data: Cache products, collections, and pages at the edge instead of hitting the Storefront API on every request.
• WebMCP tools for in-browser AI agents: Expose your storefront to in-browser AI agents so they can search the catalog, browse products, and manage the cart. Loads automatically from Shopify's CDN, no extra integration required.
• Customer Account API support: Build logged-in experiences like order history and profile pages with a typed client that handles login, token refresh, and logout.
• Same-origin predictive search: Add autocomplete search that runs through your own server instead of calling the Storefront API from the browser.
• Typed routes and redirects: Describe your URL structure once and reuse it for redirects, predictive-search URLs, and Shopify-standard resource mapping.
• ShopifyScripts for the Shopify browser runtime and unified cart route handling: Render Shopify's standard script tags and browser runtime in one place, and handle cart routes through a single registration that works the same across frameworks.

To get started, visit the Hydrogen developer preview documentation. For a detailed breakdown of this release, read the full release notes.