157 - Kurt Elster on Better Collaboration Building for Merchants
This newsletter covers recent developments and insights in the Shopify ecosystem, including a discussion on effective collaboration strategies among developers and clients by Kurt Elster, Karl Meisterheim, and Taylor Page. Other highlights include Saad Saif's guide on adding custom fonts to Shopify themes using AI-generated HTML and CSS, updates to Shopify's app performance grace period, and a new Flow trigger for metaobject entries. Metafield Definition Webhooks are now available in the GraphQL API, while Taylor Page celebrates metaobjects' versatility. Additional features include a recap of Shop Quest videos, a notable Rails World 2024 fireside chat with DHH, Matz, and Tobias Lütke, and a new AI-powered tool for generating model images for product photos.
I tried to update the Shopify admin panel but failed
I tried to create a Chrome extension to add the theme preview button in the Shopify admin panel, but this idea flopped because we cannot modify the DOM of the iframe from cross-origin.
By Saad Saif
How To Add ANY Custom Font To Shopify
AI prompt to generate the code to add any custom font to Shopify Generate HTML and CSS code to add a custom font to my Shopify theme. The code should include a preload link for performance, a @font-face declaration, and CSS rules applying the font to the elements below. Give me CSS inside a <style> tag and the link tag only, don’t add any other HTML markup. Ensure to use !important in the CSS rules. Font URL: https://your-font-url.woff2 Elements: h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 p, span, div, ul, ol, li, a, button, input, select, option, label, legend, textarea, small
By Amine Ammari
Built for Shopify update to grace period
The grace period for the following criteria have been extended to 60 days from the current 30: Minimizes impact on store speed Minimizes impact on checkout speed Admin performance: meets 75th percentile Web Vitals targets Minimum number of installs Minimum number of reviews Minimum app rating
By Shopify
You can now trigger a Flow when a metaobject entry is created!
You can now trigger a Flow when a metaobject entry is created! This seems super useful. Particularly with how we're creating metaobjects for everything now
By Taylor Page
Metafield Definition Webhooks
As of GraphQL Admin API Version 2024-10, you can subscribe to MetafieldDefinition changes under the webhook topics metafield_definitions/create, metafield_definitions/update, and metafield_definitions/delete
By ShopifyDev
Episode 027 - Guest Kurt Elster on Better Collaboration Building for Merchants
In this conversation, Karl Meisterheim, Taylor Page, and Kurt Elster discuss the challenges and strategies of collaboration in the Shopify development space, particularly focusing on working with clients and other developers.
By Liquid Weekly
How I use git
Since this is the Internet, let me add the disclaimer right here at the top: how I use git is based on the last 12 years of working in companies with smallish (less than 50) engineering teams. In every team, we used git and GitHub exclusively; changes were made in branches, proposed as pull requests, and then merged into the main branch. In the last few years, after GitHub introduced squash-merging, we used that.
By Thorsten Ball
Shop Quest Videos
For those who couldn't make it to Shop Quest, we have all the talks live on our youtube channel!
By Shop Quest
Fireside Chat with DHH, Matz and Tobias Lütke - Rails World 2024
This is the first time that Matz and DHH shared a stage, and it would not have been possible without Tobi, who not only donated his keynote spot to make this session happen, but also led the discussion.
By Ruby on Rails
AI Photo Generator To Create Images with Models
Check out the tool and prompts used to generate product images with virtual models when all you have is a product image.
By WebSensePro
