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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 guide to session tokens in Shopify UI extensions, with the differences between embedded app auth, checkout extensions, and customer account extensions explained in architecture terms that matter in production.
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 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.