Issue 238 - The Hidden Complexity of Going Global

The Hidden Complexity of Going Global

Karl and Taylor sit down with Kwadwo (Kojo) Adu, co-founder of LocaleFlow — a bootstrapped Shopify translation app built to help merchants expand into new markets without losing brand voice, SEO, or metafield data.

By Liquid Weekly

Shopify VP Vanessa Lee Explains the "Everywhere" Edition | Shopify Editions Spring '26

VP of Product Vanessa Lee joins Kurt to break down the 2026 "Everywhere" edition and the years of quiet groundwork behind it: taxonomy, attributes, clustering, and a universal product identifier that now power a search catalog of billions of products.

By ethercycle

Tobi Lütke on River: Shopify's Internal AI Agent

Tobi Lütke writes about River, Shopify's internal AI agent living in Slack. River can read code, run tests, write code, open pull requests, query the data warehouse, and inspect production traces.

By Tobi Lütke

Shopify Admin API Access Token: Complete OAuth Setup Guide

Smackcoders published a detailed guide on Shopify's move to OAuth for API access. Covers OAuth setup, API scopes, access token exchange, and GraphQL migration. If your Shopify integration stopped working recently, this is the checklist you need -- Shopify has been pushing app integrations toward OAuth and away from legacy private apps.

By Smackcoders

Developers Are Automating Entire Services

In this video you'll learn what an AI agent actually is (in plain English), how it's different from a normal automation, and how developers are using agents to automate entire services and get paid for it. The example I keep coming back to: an automated accessibility audit.

By Coding with Jan - Shopify Developer

Claude vs Cursor for Shopify Development

Will Misback compares Claude and Cursor for Shopify development work. Practical comparison of two leading AI coding tools for Shopify-specific tasks — theme work, app development, and storefront customization.

By WillMisback

How to add a size chart to a Shopify product page (with metafields)

Add a per-product size chart using metafields the merchant fills in per product, rendered in a collapsible details element.

By Bas Lefeber

Read a cart line's `viewKey` from the `CartLine` type

The CartLine type now exposes a viewKey field, so you can correlate a returned cart line with the viewKey you sent to cartLinesUpdate and cartLinesUpdate.

By Shopify