Open Sourcing the Remix Store

Summary

Today we are open sourcing the Remix Store. By making the store's source code public, we hope to benefit developers building with React Router as well as developers building Shopify stores. The Remix Team is an open source team. We work on open source software like React Router and Remix. Sometimes we open source our websites too. We launched the store back in May, with the intention of eventually open sourcing it. With something like a store though, where there is a real exchange of money for goods (a novel concept in the open source world), there's plenty of room for abuse if done wrong. After 6 months of running the store, I think we've got everything sorted out to keep our store safe while also allowing anyone to run it locally and poke around/contribute. As we open up the repo, I wanted to take a moment to share: Who this is for What it takes to launch a store Some cool features worth digging into If you just want to skip the backstory and dig into the recipe, check out the source code on GitHub. Otherwise, let's dig into the details of procurement requests, spinning hoodies, and the many iterations it took to get things right. Who this is for Before we dig into the technical bits, it's always good to put on our Product Manager hat and consider why we're building what we're building. Launching a swag store was one of the first things my manager (Michael Jackson) asked me to do when I first joined the Remix Team in 2023. In fact, this wasn't even the first attempt. Digging through some of our old, private repos, I stumbled across this beauty: To put things in context, this first store was started pre-Shopify acquisition, and well before I joined the team. After Remix joined Shopify, the reasons to build a store increased, especially with Hydrogen being built on Remix v1-2 (and now React Router). As Michael and I discussed it, we realized that we essentially had 3 audiences. The following comes directly from the internal project I had to set up to convince Shopif...