Sections type experience for Hydrogen

[drewlonious]

What's the recommended way to create a section type experience for content writers, where say you have a custom components/sections for a page, and the content manager can easily add, move around components as necessary?

[jbsmith731]

Hi @drewlonious. I could be 100% off base here but looking at the shopify storefront API documentation I'm not sure that this is possible. Sounds like you might need to lean on a 3rd party CMS (Prismic, Sanity, decoupled WP) for your content and use Shopify to manage your products.

[davecyen]

Another option, aside from using a 3rd party CMS as @jbsmith731 suggested, is to use Metafields. The values of metafields can be edited by content writers within Shopify's admin, and then displayed in your Hydrogen components. There's also an official Hydrogen component for Product metafields: https://shopify.dev/api/hydrogen/components/product-variant/productmetafield

[benjaminsehl]

@drewlonious — for a CMS, check out Sanity (@jbsmith731 recommended). They have a starter with Hydrogen, a Shopify app that will keep the CMS and Shopify in sync with one another, and a Hydrogen plugin (to make querying both Sanity and Shopify through a single call) very easy. You can even use it in combination with Metafields if that is helpful for you.