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What I wish I knew before building a Shopify App

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What I wish I knew before building a Shopify App

  • They expect you to make a onepage application (SPA)

  • The polaris design system officially only supports react

  • Integration with the shop frontend is difficult if you’re not making a theme

  • Integrating functionality via webhooks is more tedious than it needs to be

  • Payments are simple to implement, once you understand how

  • The API is constantly changing in big ways

  • The API is surprisingly unreliable

  • Backend reliability isn’t great

  • Local development of integrated apps is hard

  • Modifying the checkout is not possible

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kokolegorille

kokolegorille

Yes :slight_smile:

I meant if (real) shopify is splitted into backend/frontend, You could easily switch frontend (Vue, React, Angular etc.), but not for liveview, because it needs Phoenix as backend.

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joeb

joeb

One of my struggles is how do you determine if an app you are going to build needs to be a SPA or a traditional multi-page application.

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AstonJ

AstonJ

Complexity and offline capability is a good consideration @joeb

Things like Phoenix LiveView can take you quite far too, tbh…

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