Hydrogen developer preview update
Hydrogen's July 8 developer preview adds new capabilities to the toolkit and extends the ways developers can build Shopify storefronts:
- Storefront API caching for catalog data
- WebMCP tools for in-browser AI agents
- Customer Account API support
- Same-origin predictive search
- Typed routes and redirects
- ShopifyScripts for the Shopify browser runtime and unified cart route handling
To get started, visit the Hydrogen developer preview documentation. For a detailed breakdown of this release, read the full release notes.
Fetched July 16, 2026


