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CLI COMMANDS UNHIDDEN, HYDROGEN FIXES IMPORT RESOLUTION ACROSS FRAMEWORKS

By RepoJournal · Filed · About Shopify

Shopify CLI 4.5.0 ships store commands for public use while Hydrogen patches JavaScript project imports that broke after the Vite 8 upgrade.

Shopify CLI 4.5.0 unhides the store commands suite [1], making previously internal tooling available for general release. The move follows test coverage work across the CLI ecosystem: execute command tests now prevent regressions in flag parsing and service integration [2], while the flushPromises utility gains dedicated async scenario coverage [3]. On the Hydrogen side, three releases address a critical developer experience gap. The Vite 8 upgrade removed the vite-tsconfig-paths plugin in favor of native path alias support, which worked fine for TypeScript projects but broke JavaScript quickstarts [8]. Both @shopify/create-hydrogen 5.0.38 and skeleton 2026.4.5 now define the `~/` import alias explicitly in the Vite config [5] [6], ensuring consistent behavior across both project types. Separately, @shopify/cli-hydrogen 13.0.1 adds command policy guards to prevent classic CLI lifecycle commands from running against Hydrogen primitives projects [7], surfacing actionable errors during deployment instead of generic failures [4].

Action items

References

  1. [1] 4.5.0 ↗ Shopify/cli
  2. [2] [Tests] Cover app bulk execute command ↗ Shopify/cli
  3. [3] [Tests] Add unit tests for flushPromises utility ↗ Shopify/cli
  4. [4] @shopify/[email protected] Shopify/hydrogen
  5. [5] @shopify/[email protected] Shopify/hydrogen
  6. [6] [email protected] Shopify/hydrogen
  7. [7] Guard Hydrogen primitives projects from classic CLI commands ↗ Shopify/hydrogen
  8. [8] fix: add an explicit ~ alias in the Hydrogen skeleton ↗ Shopify/hydrogen

Quick answers

What shipped in Shopify on July 14, 2026?
Shopify CLI 4.5.0 ships store commands for public use while Hydrogen patches JavaScript project imports that broke after the Vite 8 upgrade. In total, 12 commits, 10 pull requests, and 4 releases landed.
Who contributed to Shopify on July 14, 2026?
6 developers shipped this update, including github-actions[bot], gonzaloriestra, Alfonso Noriega, shopify-github-actions-access[bot], graygilmore, and andguy95.
What were the notable Shopify updates?
4.5.0, [Tests] Cover app bulk execute command, and [Tests] Add unit tests for flushPromises utility.

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