Issue 181 - Improve LCP of your Shopify app

Improve LCP of your Shopify app

In this video, I share my experience improving Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) scores for Shopify apps. Having successfully earned the "Built for Shopify" badge for multiple apps, I break down the practical strategies that worked for me when struggling with LCP optimization.

By Farid Movsumov

Ole Thorup on How to Scale Shopify Apps with Cloudflare

In this episode of Liquid Weekly, Karl and Taylor sit down with Ole Thorup, seasoned Shopify developer and creator of Accentuate Custom Fields and now Shopify Apps Espresso Editor and Espresso Live Metafields, to explore the power and possibilities of CloudFlare in Shopify app development.

By Liquid Weekly

Shopify's React Native Journey: An In-Flight Retrospective - InfoQ

Overall, Shopify engineers' experience with React Native has revealed several bright spots, says Spotify's Mustafa Ali. One of the most encouraging findings is that React Native apps can meet stringeng performance requirements--though, as Ali notes, there’s no hidden magic involved and success depends on applying the right patterns effectively.

By Sergio De Simone

Personal Update Q1 2025 - YouTube

A little behind the scenes of the last 3 months. Hope you enjoy & thanks for being around. :-)

By Jan Frey

Shopify says: use render. But sometimes, I still choose include

Shopify deprecated {% include %} and recommends using {% render %} instead. And honestly? That makes sense; render is modern, clean, and better scoped. But there’s a catch.

By Davey Zaal

AI helped these founders fast-track their way to first sale

We’re shipping updates and improvements to our own tools at breakneck speed. Recently, we expanded Sidekick from English-only to all 20 languages supported in the Shopify admin, making AI assistance accessible to merchants globally.

By Shopify

Manage media for products

You can use the GraphQL Admin API to manage the various types of media associated with products. You can also use the Storefront API to retrieve a product's media and display it on a custom storefront. This guide explains the different types of product media, and how to use Shopify APIs to work with them.

By Shopify

Shopify Flow and Metaobjects

Shopify Flow released new blocks around metaobjects. It's even closer to becoming a full backend for your features.

By Phillip Dematis

Displaying Tag on blog.liquid template for tagged archive pages

Liam Griffin shows the dev community how to use liquid to conditionally display the blog title or tag name using a neat trick with the request path

By Liam Griffin