Ultra-fast, fully custom storefronts decoupled from the Shopify theme layer. Built with Hydrogen, Remix, and the Storefront API for brands that need complete design freedom and sub-second performance on every page.
Headless Stores
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Shopify themes are powerful, but they have limits. When your brand needs interactive product configurators, app-like transitions, dynamic personalization, or a completely custom frontend — headless is the answer. We build on Hydrogen and Remix, Shopify's own headless framework, so you get the best of both worlds: total frontend freedom with Shopify's bulletproof commerce backend.
Built on Shopify's official headless stack. Server-side rendering, streaming, nested routing, and built-in Shopify data primitives. No cobbled-together frameworks — this is the stack Shopify designed for headless.
No Liquid constraints. No theme limitations. Build any interaction, any animation, any layout. Product configurators, 3D viewers, mega-menus with real-time search — if you can design it, we can build it.
Deployed to Oxygen or Vercel Edge. Pages render at the CDN edge closest to each visitor. 0.4-second average LCP, instant navigations, and a Lighthouse score that stays in the high 90s under real-world traffic.
API mapping, data flow design, rendering strategy (SSR vs ISR vs static), CDN configuration, and caching strategy. We blueprint the entire system before writing code.
High-fidelity Figma designs leveraging the freedom of headless — custom transitions, interactive product experiences, and layouts that are impossible in Liquid themes.
Full storefront build with Hydrogen, Remix, and React. Server components, streaming SSR, nested routing, and Shopify data primitives for products, collections, and cart.
GraphQL queries and mutations for products, collections, cart, checkout, customer accounts, and search. Optimized for minimal query depth and maximum cache hit rate.
Headless cart with real-time updates, discount code application, shipping estimates, and seamless handoff to Shopify Checkout or a custom checkout experience on Plus.
Instant predictive search, faceted filtering, and collection sorting — all powered by the Storefront API with client-side caching for instant results.
Headless customer login, registration, order history, address management, and wishlist functionality using the Customer Account API.
Deployed to Shopify Oxygen, Vercel Edge, or Cloudflare Workers. Global CDN, cache warming, stale-while-revalidate patterns, and 99.9% uptime SLA.
Every project ends with a production-ready Shopify store and these tangible outputs.
Production-ready headless storefront with Remix, React, and full Shopify commerce integration
Component library, design tokens, responsive layouts, and interaction specifications
Optimized Storefront API queries, fragments, and caching strategy for every page type
Headless cart experience with real-time updates, discounts, and checkout handoff
Lighthouse audit, Core Web Vitals, edge latency measurements, and load testing results
Automated build, test, and deploy pipeline with preview deployments for every pull request
Architecture guide, component reference, API documentation, and deployment playbook
60 days of priority bug fixes, performance monitoring, and edge deployment support
We use the best tools in the Shopify ecosystem and modern frontend stack to deliver stores that are fast, reliable, and easy to maintain.
Headless framework
Commerce backend
Design implementation
Global deployment
Speed & optimization
Build & deploy
Talk to our Hydrogen team and see how headless can transform your store performance.
Book a Headless Consultation →Headless means your storefront (what customers see) is completely separate from your commerce backend (Shopify). The frontend is a custom React app that communicates with Shopify through APIs. This gives you total control over design, performance, and user experience while Shopify handles products, inventory, checkout, and payments.
Hydrogen is Shopify's official React framework for building headless storefronts. It is built on Remix and includes Shopify-specific components, hooks, and data primitives. We use it because it is purpose-built for Shopify commerce, supports streaming SSR, and deploys natively to Shopify Oxygen.
Significantly. Headless stores render at the edge (CDN), use server-side rendering with streaming, and eliminate the overhead of Shopify's theme engine. Our headless builds average 0.4s LCP compared to 2–4s for typical Liquid themes. The performance difference directly impacts conversion rates.
No. Shopify's commerce backend — products, inventory, orders, checkout, payments, and fulfillment — all work the same. You lose the theme editor (since there is no theme), but you gain complete design freedom. For content management, we integrate headless CMS tools like Sanity or Contentful.
Yes. Headless stores hand off to Shopify Checkout at the point of purchase. On Shopify Plus, you can customize the checkout experience with Checkout Extensibility. The cart lives in your headless frontend, then redirects to Shopify's hosted checkout for payment.
We deploy to Shopify Oxygen (Shopify's own hosting for Hydrogen), Vercel Edge, or Cloudflare Workers depending on your needs. All options provide global edge rendering, meaning your store loads fast no matter where your customers are in the world.
No. Headless is ideal for brands that need custom interactions (configurators, 3D, animations), extreme performance, or complete design freedom. For straightforward eCommerce, a well-built OS 2.0 Liquid theme is often the better choice — faster to build, easier to maintain, and more cost-effective.
Full-service Shopify store builds with custom Liquid themes for brands that want a powerful storefront without going headless.
Learn More →Enterprise-grade Shopify Plus builds with checkout customization, automation, B2B, and multi-currency for high-volume brands.
Learn More →Custom public and private apps built with Polaris, App Bridge, and Shopify APIs to extend your store's capabilities.
Learn More →Tell us about your vision and we will show you what headless can do. Free consultation, detailed proposal, zero obligation.