Implementation-heavy guides for engineers working on architecture, storefront performance, extensibility, and technical execution quality.
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A practical guide to calling Rails endpoints from a Shopify Customer Account UI Extension, including session-token verification, endpoint design, and the requests that should not go through your backend at all.
A practical backend architecture guide for Shopify Checkout UI Extensions, covering when to call your own backend, how to keep the extension thin, and where teams overbuild the server side.
A practical architecture guide for Rails teams building retry-safe Shopify event pipelines with webhooks, queues, reconciliation jobs, and durable side-effect tracking.
How to structure a Shopify embedded app with React on the frontend and Rails on the backend, including auth boundaries, deployment shape, and the operational tradeoffs that matter in production.
Production patterns for using the Shopify Admin GraphQL API from Rails, including service boundaries, pagination strategy, throttling, partial failure handling, and when to switch to bulk operations.
A practical guide to using Shopify app proxies with a Rails backend and React frontend, including request validation, frontend architecture, and the cases where proxies are the wrong tool.
A Rails implementation guide for Shopify Bulk Operations covering job orchestration, JSONL downloads, polling versus webhooks, and the service boundaries that make large syncs maintainable.
A backend architecture guide for Shopify Customer Account UI Extensions using Rails for app logic, persistence, and API orchestration without turning the extension into a fragile mini-app.
A guide to the current Shopify installation model for Rails apps, explaining where managed install replaces older OAuth assumptions and where authorization code grant still matters.
A Rails-focused guide to Shopify session tokens for embedded apps, covering the Shopify App gem, token exchange, frontend request flow, and the mistakes that still break production auth.
A Rails guide to Shopify webhook idempotency using event IDs, durable deduplication, and processing patterns that survive retries, duplicates, and delayed deliveries.
How to structure Theme App Extensions when your Shopify app backend is Rails, including configuration ownership, data flow, and the boundary between theme-safe data and app-owned backend logic.