Issue 200 - Build a Variant Picker from Scratch

Shopify Theme Development: Building A Variant Picker FROM SCRATCH

In the last video we built a storefront collection filter from scratch. Now we focus on another important part of a theme: the variant picker on a product page. We will start from the really basics and work our way up to a cool swatch variant picker with a working variant change javascript functionality.

By Bosidev

One of my old Shopify hacks just broke 😭😭

A couple of years back, I built a custom collection page for a client. The idea was simple Instead of hitting the server every time a customer navigated to the next page or applied a filter, I pulled all products of a collection upfront in JSON format. Read more to discover why it recently stopped working.

By Saroj Punde

Is Letting Shopify run our code on their infra is actually a good direction?

With all the issues happening lately to Shopify extensions and functions, I'm starting to doubt if letting Shopify run our code on their infra is actually a good direction. When things break, merchants blame our apps while Shopify's status pages show all green

By Patrick Jakubik

How To Add Custom Forms in Shopify [Without Code]

How To Add Custom Forms in Shopify [Without Code] Create pop-up form and inline forms completely for free.

By Websense Pro

Polaris web components got new Modals

Shopify released new Modal web component for Polaris. It finally solves problems that we used to have with older modals implementations in Shopify apps.

By Kirill Platonov

Need an external page / URL to be under your Shopify store's domain

Need an external page / URL to be under your Shopify store's domain? Here's how to do it with a custom app and 0 code using App Proxies.

By Filippos Dematis

Migrate from the Partner Dashboard

Learn how to migrate your apps to the Next-Gen Developer Platform: • Updating to the latest version of Shopify CLI • Moving from dashboard to CLI-managed extensions • Linking app configurations to the CLI • Understanding new extension user identifiers

By ShopifyDevs

Building Production-Ready Agentic Systems: Lessons from Shopify Sidekick (2025)

Sidekick has evolved from a simple tool-calling system into a sophisticated agentic platform. Along the way, we've learned valuable lessons about architecture design, evaluation methodologies, and training techniques that we want to share with the broader AI engineering community.

By Andrew McNamara

Shopify App Reviews API

The Reviews API allows you to request an app review modal overlaid on your embedded app in the Shopify admin. You control when to request a modal, but it will only be displayed to the merchant if certain conditions are met.

By Shopify