156 - A little Shopify theme performance story
This issue of Liquid Weekly includes a performance audit story on optimizing a custom Shopify theme, and a video guide on implementing multi-currency checkout. Shopify’s latest App Bridge requirement for apps within the Shopify admin, effective October 2025, is highlighted, along with a video on Shipready.dev for faster app building. Additional topics include optimizing SQLite for Rails, checking gift card balances in Shopify POS, scaling Shopify Function resource limits with cart size, branding the new customer login, and the launch of the .dev Community Forum for developer support.
A little Shopify theme performance story: I'm conducting a performance audit for a Shopify site which uses a custom theme built by me, I focus on performance from the get-go and follow all best practices so it surprised me when Lighthouse scores were coming back in the mid-60 range when it was in the high 90's when we launched.
In this video, you will learn how to offer different currencies on your Shopify Store. We will not only display the different currencies on your website but implement a multi-currency checkout and let customers pay in their local currency.
Update on App Bridge requirement for the Shopify App Store: Starting October 15th, 2025, all Shopify App Store apps that appear in the Shopify admin must use the latest Shopify App Bridge version.
In this video, I will answer most of your common questions about Shipready and how it helps you build Shopify apps faster.
I have spent the last year digging into the details to uncover what the issues are with SQLite on Rails applications as they exist today and how to resolve those issues. So, let me show you everything you need to build a production-ready SQLite-driven Rails application today…
When a customer comes into your store with a gift card and wants to check the gift card balance, how should you proceed?
Certain Shopify Function resource limits now scale proportionally to the number of line items in the cart. Starting at 200 line items, your Shopify Function runs will be able to use more resources than before. This change applies to all Shopify Function runs that include cart lines in their input query. Learn more about dynamic resource limits and how they're calculated for Shopify Functions on
Introducing the .dev Community Forum, your hub for technical questions and community support 🛠️ • Faster support from Shopify’s Product experts • Better code formatting and user-friendly UI
How to brand the new customer login using the checkout/accounts editor
