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Custom storefront architecture
Senior thinking, practical delivery and a clear reason behind every decision.
Headless Shopify development
Hydrogen Shopify development for faster, more flexible headless commerce.
Build a custom Shopify storefront using Hydrogen, React Router and the Storefront API when a conventional theme cannot provide the experience, performance or architecture the project requires.
Built around the business
Hydrogen Shopify without the generic agency process.
Every recommendation is shaped around the products, customer journey, internal team and commercial priorities behind the store.
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React-led development
Senior thinking, practical delivery and a clear reason behind every decision.
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Shopify commerce underneath
Senior thinking, practical delivery and a clear reason behind every decision.
Connected delivery
Choose Hydrogen for a real architectural reason — not because headless sounds impressive.
Hydrogen can unlock far greater frontend control, but it also changes hosting, development and maintenance requirements. We help determine whether the flexibility creates enough commercial value to justify the added complexity.
20+years in design and development
2014our first major Shopify build
1connected team from idea to support
Directaccess to experienced specialists
How we work
A senior-led process from first conversation to continuous improvement.
Discover
Understand customers, products, operations and commercial priorities.
Design
Shape architecture, journeys, interfaces and responsive behaviour.
Develop
Build maintainable themes, integrations and custom functionality.
Improve
Support the store and prioritise improvements after launch.
Studio by Stepholt
Keep improving Shopify without starting a new project every time.
Use Studio for store improvements, campaign pages, integrations, content updates and the jobs that otherwise stay on the list.
Explore StudioFrequently asked questions
Hydrogen Shopify questions.
Hydrogen is Shopify's development stack for building custom headless storefronts using React Router and Shopify commerce APIs.
Headless separates the customer-facing storefront from Shopify's commerce backend, allowing a more custom frontend while Shopify continues to manage products, checkout and orders.
Hydrogen is most appropriate when the project needs a highly bespoke experience, unusual content architecture, advanced integrations or frontend control that a standard theme cannot provide efficiently.
Not automatically. Performance depends on architecture, data fetching, caching, media, third-party scripts and implementation quality.
Yes. We can assess the business case, content, SEO, integrations, analytics and operational risks before planning a phased or complete headless migration.
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Tell us what is working, what is getting in the way and what the business needs to achieve next.