Everything About Hyva theme for eCommerce (Magento)

Introduction

Hyva Theme is the latest and fastest theme ever available for Magento frontend. More than 1,500 live websites are using Hyva Theme across 21+ countries. Hyva uses the latest technologies like Alpine.js, Tailwind CSS, and GraphQL, which replace RequireJS and Knockout.js from the front end, making Magento attractive, optimized, user-friendly, and faster loading, which helps in Google Page Speed.

Why Use Hyva Theme for Magento?

Traditional Magento Themes Inherit Luma or Blank themes use jQuery and Less, whereas Hyva uses the latest technologies like Alpine JS and Tailwind CSS. These are much lighter and faster than traditional technologies. As a consequence, Hyva loads pages faster compared to the traditional Hyva theme.

Key Benefits Of Using Hyva Theme

1. Reduced complexity means less development time and money

Hyva theme removes all the XML structures used by Luma and Blank themes and starts as a fresh theme. Hyva removes all JQuery files and replaces them with Alpine.js. Additionally, all CSS/Less is removed and Tailwind CSS is used. For those who do not know, Tailwind is a CSS Framework that has HTML class-based structures to apply CSS that can reduce CSS output by 70%+ compared to traditional Less and CSS files. For content, it’s using Alpine.js which is compatible with GraphQL APIs, that is faster than other APIs.

2. UseAdvanced Technologies to Optimize Performance

Hyva Theme removed the use of RequireJS, old JS libraries and traditional Less files, and Knockout from the storefront and added Alpine.js, the lightest JS framework ever available. It is HTML-centric, so developers can write Alpine.js inside HTML tags, which reduces unusual content loading time and other processing time of RequireJS, other JS libraries, Less/CSS which come with traditional Luma-based themes. With Tailwind CSS, Hyva gets faster CSS loading in the storefront than other traditional methods.

3. Performance like PWA (in mobile devices)

PWA (Progressive Web App) is mostly preferred for its performance. When you use PWA on mobile, it offers the same experience as a native app, however, it takes a lot of time to develop. It requires development from scratch and takes more time to fix SEO-related issues. When we look at Hyva Theme performance, it’s comparable with less development time and resources.

4. Huge developer community

Hyva has a large developer community with Hyva core team members, you can expect a faster response from this community. Nowadays, most extension developers like Amasty, Aheadworks, Webkul, Mageworx, Mirasvit, Magecomp, and Snowdog offer Hyva-compatible extensions for their customers.

5. Hyva UI Component

Hyva provides 16 UI components free with their theme which includes multiple designs for header, footer, banner, categories, cookie-notice, notification, popup, product-card, slider, testimonial, USP section etc. You can choose and modify these UI components as per your requirements in different projects. Moreover, Hyva has many components in the pipeline like tabbing, accordion, and collapsable which will make development easier in the future.

Benefits for developers

Hyva Theme is developer-friendly. As Magento developers know Magento’s structure very well, it follows the same structure to customize the theme. A few dependencies are offered with Hyva Theme, which makes development faster and improves the overall website performance. It’s a huge community that supports developers to get different solutions for custom functionalities. Magento developers like to work with Hyva Theme-based projects because of its simple structure to follow, which reduces development time.

Resources For Developers

Alpine.js:  Alpine is a collection of 15 Attributes 6 Properties and 2 Methods. It is like modern jQuery for browsers. Developers can learn it from its official website https://alpinejs.dev/.

TailWind CSS: Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework composed of HTML classes that offer faster development. Developers can learn it from https://tailwindcss.com/  and https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/introduction-to-tailwind-css/

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How to purchase Hyva theme

Step: 1

Purchase the Hyva theme at https://www.hyva.io/ and place your order there.

Step: 2

The Hyva team emailed to register an email to make a payment for an order.

Step: 3

Once the Hyva team has confirmed payment, these credentials will be emailed to the email address you provided during registration. They will also create support accounts for clients.

How to Become a Hyva Partner

Once one of your clients purchases a Hyva Theme, they will ask your development company for an email. Moreover, they will add you to GitLab and Slack. Therefore, it is possible for the company to have access to GitLab and Slack. Getting questions answered by the Hyva team or other members of the community is the quickest way.

We are now suppliers of the Hyva theme.

https://www.hyva.io/suppliers

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