Issue 166 - Top Opportunities for Shopify Devs in 2025
This issue of the newsletter highlights exciting updates for Shopify developers. A video tutorial by Stacking Context explores Theme Blocks, a new feature in Shopify Liquid Themes that allows reusable, nestable blocks with dynamic sources. Gil Greenberg outlines top development opportunities for 2025, emphasizing the importance of leveraging Shopify Editions updates and quarterly reports. Shopify also released an app boilerplate based on their "Shopify Subscriptions" app, offering a valuable resource for embedded app development.
Other highlights include Fly.io’s streamlined support for deploying Shopify Remix applications, lessons from five years of using React Native at Shopify, and the creation of "Tophat," a macOS app for seamless mobile app testing. Additionally, Traversy Media offers a Git and GitHub crash course to master version control essentials. These updates provide valuable tools, strategies, and insights for Shopify developers.
Shopify Theme Development - Theme Blocks | Nesting Blocks in Sections
In this video we will see Theme Blocks, the latest addition to Liquid Shopify Themes. Theme blocks are blocks that are defined at the theme level, they can be reused across different sections of the theme, and can be nested within other theme blocks. In the video we cover how to create Theme Blocks, how to make include them in sections, how to nest them, make them private and use dynamic sources within them.
By Stacking Context
Top Opportunities for Shopify Devs in 2025
Before I begin, I want to reiterate that the two best places to collect this information is our Shopify Editions landing pages which act as a changelog for the last 6 months of updates and our quarterly earnings report which reveal performance and investment in key areas of Shopify. Build with the currents and you’ll need less wind in your sail to succeed.
By Gil Greenberg
Shopify released new app boilerplate
Less than a month ago, Shopify released their app boilerplate. They published the exact code they used for the basic features of one of their own apps, "Shopify Subscriptions". This codebase is mostly for embedded apps, where the interface is within the Shopify dashboard. I'll definitely be studying it and using it for future apps I work on.
By Filippos Dematis
fly launch support for Shopify Remix applications
The Fly.io folks did an awesome job helping to make deploying Shopify apps to Fly even easier and more intuitive: It's literally just baked into `fly launch` now - give it a spin and let us know what you think!
By Fly.io
Five years of React Native at Shopify (2025)
Five years ago, we announced that React Native (RN) is the future of mobile at Shopify. Today, we are excited to share the progress we've made, lessons learned, and what the future holds.
By Mustafa Ali
Tophat: Crafting a Delightful Mobile Developer Experience (2024)
Learn how Shopify created a seamless one-click manual testing experience (known as "tophatting") for mobile applications by creating a macOS app.
By Lukas Romsicki
Git & GitHub Crash Course 2025
This is a crash course to learn the fundamentals of Git version control and the Github platform. Learn all of the core commands and the workflow to start learning Git.
By Traversy Media
