Issue 183 - How This Founder Runs 50+ Shopify Apps

How This Founder Runs 50+ Shopify Apps

Meet the founder of Shop Circle — the team behind 50+ Shopify apps. We talk app buying, valuations, tech stacks, and how they’re building the future of ecommerce tools.

By Jan Frey

visible_if Deep Dive

Anybody who's built a Liquid theme before will have come across this classic scenario: a section needs to support either an image or a video. Previously you'd have to show both inputs in the theme customiser regardless of which is being used.

By David Warrington

How to redirect an embedded app to subscription confirmation?

Nikola asks a question that has plagued many of us. How do you redirect an embedded app. The community answers!

By Nikola Milovic

Reconcile your data with Webhooks

Your app shouldn't rely solely on receiving data from Shopify webhooks. Because webhook delivery isn't always guaranteed, you should implement reconciliation jobs to periodically fetch data from Shopify. You could do this in the background, or offer reconciliation and syncing options to the merchant. For example the UI of your app could contain a button that triggers a manual reconciliation process by calling the relevant API endpoint, and fetching the requested data.

By Shopify

Navigating with App Bridge

The Navigation API allows you navigate within and outside of your app using the HTML anchor element. It also allows you to modify the top-level browser URL with or without navigating

By Shopify

Shopdev - AI Developer for Shopify

Meet shopdev, your AI developer for Shopify. Connect your Shopify store. And prompt custom sections using your own products, collections, and theme styles. With shopdev, you can generate clean Liquid code that’s ready to ship — or publish straight to your theme in one click.

By shopdev

Learning Shopify Hydrogen? - Why I'd stick with themes

In this video I react to the demand for more Shopify Hydrogen content and why I'd recommend sticking with themes instead.

By Code with Chris

Build a UI For Discount Shopify Functions

In this video we will see how to build a UI for a Discount Shopify Function using Admin UI Extensions. This will allow us to integrate the UI directly with Shopify's Discount Page from the Admin and extend its functionality while allowing the merchants to create custom discounts from an interface they are already familiar with.

By Stacking Context