Hydrogen?
Appsalon chooses Hydrogen when time-to-value and Shopify-native performance are paramount. The Spring 2025 Hydrogen releases tightened up on internationalization, cart flow, and React Router integration, and the GitHub changelog shows the migration to React Router 7 and update to SFAPI 2025-04. For teams looking to iterate quickly on large catalogs and have good edge caching, this provides a predictable foundation.

BYO Stack?
When you already have an established frontend (Next/Remix/Svelte) or need specific architecture choices, we go BYO stack. Shopify describes how the Headless channel in Admin provides a central place for keys, permissions, and publishing products to headless storefronts, allowing rollouts to be phased side-by-side without touching Checkout. This flexibility suits customers with advanced integrations (ERP/PIM/Logistics) – a landscape Appsalon operates in daily through projects and operational services.

What does this mean for Appsalon customers?
Headless allows for personalization at scale, faster pages, and the freedom to combine content, search, and AI-powered components. Especially as Instant Checkout and AI agents move purchases closer to the conversation, it becomes an advantage to have a frontend that can experiment with short decision cycles, intent signaling, and inventory/margin-aware components—without compromising stable commerce in Shopify.

Appsalon has its own analyses and cases about headless, Hydrogen and POS, which show that its expertise ranges from strategy to integration and operations in Norway.