Shopify Dev
Shopify App Audio API: Store S3 URLs, Not Base64 (opens in a new tab)
DEV.to Shopify· Oct 23, 2026· 9/10
Best‑practice guide for storing audio files in external object stores and referencing them via metafield URLs.
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Shopify Dev
Shopify Dev
Shopify API Versioning: Why Stable Releases Feel Unstable (opens in a new tab)
DEV.to Shopify· Oct 23, 2026· 9/10
Explains why Shopify’s stable API releases still change and how developers should plan migrations.
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Shopify API Stability: The 2026-10 Changelog Delay (opens in a new tab)
DEV.to Shopify· Oct 23, 2026· 9/10
Details the impact of a delayed changelog on enterprise app development and migration timelines.
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Discover a merchant's retail stores with UCP location search and lookup (opens in a new tab)
Shopify Dev· Oct 22, 2026· 9/10
New UCP location APIs let storefronts query a merchant’s physical store locations via the storefront MCP.
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Track your Shopify app competitors: rankings, pricing and new reviews every day (opens in a new tab)
DEV.to Shopify· Oct 23, 2026· 8/10
A tool that automatically monitors competitor app listings for pricing, badges, and reviews to keep developers informed.
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Build a GTIN fix list for your Shopify store before Merchant Center flags it (Python) (opens in a new tab)
DEV.to Shopify· Oct 23, 2026· 8/10
Python script that pre‑checks product GTINs to avoid Google Merchant Center errors.
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Why I Stopped Ignoring WISMO and Built a Custom Shopify Widget (opens in a new tab)
DEV.to Shopify· Oct 23, 2026· 8/10
Describes building a widget to provide post‑purchase order tracking and reduce support emails.
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Building a Custom Shopify Tracking Widget to Solve Post-Purchase Chaos (opens in a new tab)
DEV.to Shopify· Oct 23, 2026· 8/10
Walkthrough of creating a tracking widget that automates order status updates for merchants.
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What do Shopify apps charge? Scraping App Store pricing and reviews with Python (70-app snapshot) (opens in a new tab)
DEV.to Shopify· Oct 23, 2026· 8/10
Python scraper that collects pricing and review data from the Shopify App Store for competitive analysis.
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How to Export Any Shopify Store's Product Catalog and Prices to CSV (opens in a new tab)
DEV.to Shopify· Oct 22, 2026· 7/10
Shows how to export a Shopify store’s full product catalog and prices to CSV using the public JSON feed.
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This Week In React #302: Next.js, React Router, DevTools, Security, shadcn, Hydrogen, Vinext, Mutative, R3F | RN 0.88, Expo 58, Navigation, FastImage, Screens, Device Hub, Edge to Edge | TypeScript, PHP, CrUX, Rsdoctor, Astro (opens in a new tab)
This Week In React· Oct 21, 2026· 7/10
Newsletter covering React ecosystem, including Shopify Hydrogen updates.
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Catch Google Merchant Center Disapprovals Before Google Does (opens in a new tab)
DEV.to Shopify· Oct 22, 2026· 6/10
Provides a workflow to detect and prevent Google Merchant Center disapprovals caused by product feed drift in Shopify stores.
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Recover More Abandoned Carts on WhatsApp With Klaviyo and Littledata (opens in a new tab)
Littledata· Oct 22, 2026· 6/10
Shows how Klaviyo and Littledata can recover abandoned carts via WhatsApp for Shopify merchants.
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Mass Merchant UX Benchmark: 5,600+ Performance Scores and 4,600+ Best Practice Examples (opens in a new tab)
Baymard Institute· Oct 22, 2026· 6/10
Releases a UX benchmark with over 5,600 performance scores for mass merchant sites, useful for Shopify store optimization.
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Triple Whale vs Polar Analytics vs Littledata: You're Comparing the Wrong Things (opens in a new tab)
Littledata· Oct 21, 2026· 6/10
Comparison of e-commerce analytics tools, highlighting Littledata's unique value for Shopify stores.
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Black Friday Emails: Stop Growing Your List (opens in a new tab)
Ethercycle· Oct 20, 2026· 6/10
Advice on optimizing email strategy for Black Friday, focusing on funnel rather than list growth.
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Tooling Updates
POS UI extensions now support reactive storage access (opens in a new tab)
Shopify Dev· Oct 22, 2026· 8/10
Adds reactive storage access to POS UI extensions, enabling automatic updates across extension targets.
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POS UI extensions 2026-10 adds s-pos-list, a virtualized list with custom row templates (opens in a new tab)
Shopify Dev· Oct 22, 2026· 8/10
Introduces s-pos-list, a virtualized list component for Polaris web components in POS UI extensions.
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Polaris 2.0 is now stable (opens in a new tab)
Shopify Dev· Oct 22, 2026· 8/10
Polaris 2.0 Web Components are now stable on the CDN, matching the redesigned Shopify admin.
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AI + Shopify
I checked 1,071 Shopify stores for ChatGPT shopping readiness. Here is what is missing before Black Friday (opens in a new tab)
DEV.to Shopify· Oct 23, 2026· 7/10
Survey of stores showing gaps in AI‑ready product data ahead of Black Friday.
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We gave AI agents a mobile dev environment (opens in a new tab)
Shopify Engineering· Oct 22, 2026· 7/10
Explores giving AI agents a mobile development environment to accelerate Shopify app building.
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