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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

https://ma.ttias.ch/what-i-wish-i-knew-before-building-a-shopify-app.html

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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.

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.

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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