The Secret to Building Better Magento Storefronts at Meet Magento UK - Hyvä Out & About

In this video, Rebecca Brocton is joined by John Hughes for a deep dive into his talk at Meet Magento UK, which focussed on how keeping things simple can lead to fast, user-friendly, and affordable Magento storefronts. We’ll dive into modern techniques like deferring content with Alpine JS, using the browser Speculation Rules API for instant page loads, Hyvä product updates, our future roadmap and much more. 🚀
Here’s what we discussed:
0:00 - Introduction
Overview of the talk at Meet Magento.
Introduction of John Hughes and Rebecca Brocton.
3:02 - Simplicity: The Secret to Building Better Magento Storefronts
Talk Opening & Audience Engagement
4:27 - Hyvä Overview
Introduction to Hyvä and its products: Theme, UI, Checkout & Enterprise
Ecosystem and community stats
Hyvä Ranks in the Top 25 Global eCommerce Technologies
9:01 - Why is simplicity the answer?
The pain of Luma/headless/SPA 🤕
What merchants actually want
Evolutionary eCommerce
12:21 - What makes Hyvä different?
Our beliefs
KISS (Keep it Simple Stupid)
What do we mean by ‘simple’?
14:57 - Performance: What’s Changed & New Techniques
Core Web Vitals and performance improvements.
New features like x-defer and speculation rules API.
Service-side rendering & benefits.
JavaScript Page Registry & Conditional rendering of JavaScript code
Checkout Step Navigation Overhaul
37:08 Hyvä Product Updates & Roadmap
Hyvä Theme
Hyvä UI
Hyvä Checkout
Hyvä Enterprise
47:41 Edge Delivery Services Integration
Combining Hyvä with Adobe Experience Manager and Edge Delivery Services.
51:39 Wrap Up & Key Takeaways
Hyvä's commitment
Community Initiatives
Mentioned Links:
🎢 Hyvä Theme: www.hyva.io/hyva-themes-licen...
🎨 Hyvä UI: www.hyva.io/hyva-ui.html
🛒 Hyvä Checkout: www.hyva.io/hyva-checkout.html
🚀 Hyvä Enterprise: www.hyva.io/hyva-enterprise.html
👩‍💻 Hyvä Demo Store: demo.hyva.io/
❎ Fixing INP performance with x-defer: • How to Hyvä - Fixing I...
❇️ Instant Page Loads with Speculation Rules: • How to Hyvä - Instant...
⚡ Rendering JS once when it is needed on a page: docs.hyva.io/hyva-themes/writ...
📝 Blog posts on accessibility: www.hyva.io/blog/tag/accessib...
✅ Hyvä Themes Feature Matrix: www.hyva.io/hyva-themes-featu...
🛝 Slides from John Hughes' Talk: docs.google.com/presentation/...
Adobe Experience Manager and Edge Delivery Services Integration: Link to be added once available.
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Our speakers:
🎙️ Rebecca Brocton: Community Manager | / rebeccabrocton
🎙️ John Hughes: VP of Product | / johnhughes1984
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