Strategies for Navigating Hyvä – Alexander Galdin

Your host: Joseph Maxwell, Founder and CEO of SwiftOtter, Inc.

Show Notes

We’ve had some great talks in the past about Hyvä and its capabilities (listen to The Hyvä Revolution episode with Willem Wigman), but in this episode Alexander Galdin, Frontend Developer with ITdelight joined us to talk about actually customizing Hyvä for merchants! His in the trenches, boots on the ground perspective was really great to hear! This was an enlightening discussion with Alex, and we hope you learn as much about working with Hyvä as we did! 

0:00
Show Intro

1:17
Life as a frontend developer

2:18
Hyvä with a single Magento instance and multiple stores

5:04
Understanding the basics of using Hyvä

8:15
Strategies for having multiple stores

11:15
There are pros and cons to any feature, and there are usually reasons for the design trade-offs

14:10
Alpine.js, and some of the challenges

19:17
Strategies Alex has figured out for overcoming some of the design trade-offs

23:59
How to handle upgrades to to the modules

26:26
Alex’s advice for frontend developers, and the importance of expanding your social networking circle

27:40
The courage of those in Ukraine, and what we can learn from them

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