Server Components to the Rescue: Turbocharging and Empowering Your React Apps with Style

- Introduction
- Prerequisites for the workshop
- Fetching strategies: fundamentals
- Fetching strategies – hands-on: fetch API, cache (static VS dynamic), revalidate, suspense (parallel data fetching)
- Test your build and serve it on Vercel
- Future: Server components VS Client components
- Workshop easter egg (unrelated to the topic, calling out accessibility)
- Wrapping up

Get ready to supercharge your web development skills with React Server Components! In this immersive, 3-hour workshop, we'll unlock the full potential of this revolutionary technology and explore how it's transforming the way developers build lightning-fast, efficient web applications.
Join us as we delve into the exciting world of React Server Components, which seamlessly blend server-side rendering with client-side interactivity for unparalleled performance and user experience. You'll gain hands-on experience through practical exercises, real-world examples, and expert guidance on how to harness the power of Server Components in your own projects.
Throughout the workshop, we'll cover essential topics, including:
- Understanding the differences between Server and Client Components
- Implementing Server Components to optimize data fetching and reduce JavaScript bundle size
- Integrating Server and Client Components for a seamless user experience
- Strategies for effectively passing data between components and managing state
- Tips and best practices for maximizing the performance benefits of React Server Components
Workshop level: 
No matter your current level of React expertise, this workshop will equip you with the knowledge and tools to take your web development game to new heights. Don't miss this opportunity to stay ahead of the curve and master the cutting-edge technology that's changing the face of web development. Sign up now and unleash the full power of React Server Components!

Hydrogen is an opinionated React framework and SDK for building fast, custom storefronts powered Shopify. Hydrogen embraces React Server Components and makes use of Vite and Tailwind CSS. In this workshop participants will get a first look at Hydrogen, learn how and when to use it, all while building a fully functional custom storefront with the Hydrogen team themselves.

Get hands-on with Hydrogen, a React-based framework powered by Shopify. In this workshop, we'll explore the framework and get a custom storefront up and running quickly. You'll learn how (and when) to leverage React Server Components and caching mechanisms to build fast, dynamic, custom storefronts.

Get hands on with Hydrogen, a React-based framework for building headless storefronts. Hydrogen is built for Shopify commerce with all the features you need for a production-ready storefront. It provides a quick start, build-fast environment so you can focus on the fun stuff - building unique commerce experiences. In this workshop we’ll scaffold a new storefront and rapidly build a product page. We’ll cover how to get started, file-based routing, fetching data from the Storefront API, Hydrogen’s built-in components and how to apply styling with Tailwind.
You will know:
- Get started with the hello-world template on StackBlitz
- File-based routing to create a /products/example route
- Dynamic routing /products/:handle
- Hit the Storefront API with GraphQL
- Move the query into the Hydrogen app
- Update the query to fetch a product by handle
- Display title, price, image
&
description.
- Tailwind styling
- Variant picker and buy now button
- Bonus if there’s time: Collections page
Prerequisites: 
- A Chromium-based browser (StackBlitz)
- Ideally experience with React. A general web development background would be fine.