Tools

Know what's in the toolbox

What each tool is, how it's licensed, and when a dev would actually reach for it.

Hosting & content platforms

Where sites get deployed and published: frontend clouds, edge platforms, and the CMS behind content-heavy sites.

Shopify

Hosted commerce platform

Runs the commerce backend behind a theme or custom storefront. Use its Storefront API for headless product and cart flows while checkout stays hosted by Shopify.

Oxygen

Managed service

Managed Hydrogen storefront hosting

Shopify's hosting platform for Hydrogen storefronts, with deployment previews and environment management. Keeps storefront delivery alongside the commerce platform.

Vercel

Freemium

Frontend cloud platform

Managed framework hosting with Git-connected branch previews and production deployments. Server code runs in Functions with runtime, region, memory, and duration settings; static assets use its delivery network.

Cloudflare Workers

Freemium

Edge compute and static hosting

Runs application code alongside Static Assets, with bindings to Cloudflare services. Workers provides Web APIs and a subset of Node APIs; framework integrations must target its runtime.

Netlify

Freemium

Web hosting platform

Git-based hosting with deploy previews, serverless and edge functions, forms, and a global CDN. A long-standing home for static and Jamstack sites.

WordPress

Open source

Open-source CMS

The PHP content management system behind a large share of the web: drafts, roles, revisions, a media library, and the block editor, extended by thousands of plugins and themes.

WooCommerce

Open source

E-commerce plugin for WordPress

Turns a WordPress site into a store: products, carts, checkout, payments, and orders, managed from the same admin as the content.