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This skill guides developers and SaaS founders on minimizing operational costs when building on the Shopify platform. It covers deep dives into Shopify store plan rate limits, optimizing GraphQL and REST API usage, implementing robust cost tracking mechanisms, and applying advanced strategies like caching and bulk operations to reduce billable expenditures.

A comprehensive guide for developers building apps on Shopify, focusing on mandatory privacy compliance (GDPR/CCPA). Learn how to correctly manage sensitive customer PII, implement critical privacy webhooks (data request, redaction), enforce data minimization principles, and establish robust data retention policies required for App Store submission and legal compliance.

This guide provides comprehensive steps for deploying Shopify applications (including extensions and functions) to various production cloud hosting platforms, such as Vercel, Fly.io, and Google Cloud Run. It covers critical aspects like environment configuration, setting up necessary webhooks, utilizing the Shopify CLI for deployment, and best practices for securely handling platform-specific secrets and ensuring production stability. Use this when moving a local Shopify app to a live e-commerce environment.

This skill guides the implementation of enterprise-grade Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for Shopify Plus applications. It covers integrating fine-grained staff permissions, managing multi-location inventory access, and utilizing the Shopify Organization API for centralized multi-store governance. This is essential for building complex, secure SaaS solutions that require granular, per-staff, and organization-wide permission management.

Learn how to build advanced, server-side business logic for Shopify using Shopify Functions and WebAssembly (WASM). This guide covers implementing custom discount rules, payment customizations, delivery option filtering, and cart transformations directly at the checkout. Designed for developers, it leverages the WASM sandbox for highly constrained, powerful e-commerce functionality.

A comprehensive guide to mastering Shopify's calculated query cost system. Learn how to prevent API throttling errors by understanding the difference between requested and actual query costs. The guide covers advanced techniques like optimizing pagination, selecting minimal fields, avoiding deep nesting, and utilizing bulk operations for massive data exports.

This guide provides a minimal, working example of connecting to a Shopify store using the GraphQL Admin API. It demonstrates how to initialize the API client, authenticate the connection, and execute a query to retrieve product and variant details. Ideal for developers starting a new e-commerce integration, testing API connectivity, or learning basic Shopify data retrieval patterns.

A comprehensive guide for rapid incident response when Shopify integrations fail or behave unexpectedly. It instructs users to triage issues by checking the status page, diagnosing API connectivity, and handling common errors like rate limits (429) or expired tokens (401). Includes decision trees, immediate mitigation steps, and communication templates.

This guide details how to implement robust and secure authentication for Shopify applications using the official @shopify/shopify-api SDK. It covers three main authentication methods: OAuth flow for public apps, session token exchange for embedded apps, and private access for custom apps. Use this skill when setting up, connecting, or debugging any application that requires deep integration and secure API access to Shopify's admin or storefront data.

A comprehensive guide detailing the 10 most common anti-patterns and mistakes when developing apps for the Shopify platform. Covers critical topics including mandatory GraphQL usage, handling userErrors, GDPR compliance, webhook timeouts, and secure API practices. Essential for code audits and App Store preparation.

This guide provides a comprehensive framework for load testing Shopify app integrations, specifically designed to respect strict API rate limits. It teaches users how to plan and benchmark system capacity for high-traffic events like Black Friday/Cyber Monday (BFCM) or flash sales using tools like k6. Users learn to optimize for burst events, analyze GraphQL cost, and configure infrastructure scaling for reliable e-commerce performance.

This guide provides a comprehensive and reproducible local development workflow for Shopify applications. It details how to use the Shopify CLI for scaffolding and hot reloading, integrate ngrok for stable webhook tunneling, and set up Vitest for robust API testing, enabling developers to achieve rapid and reliable iteration cycles.