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Shopify Section Rendering API: 6 Patterns That Cut Storefront TTFB by 60%
Cart drawer refresh swaps one section in 180ms instead of reloading the full PDP at 1.2s. Filtered collection grids return only the product list, cutting payload from 340KB to 42KB on scroll. Variant-aware recommendations re-render with section_id when a swatch...
Read articleBuild a Magnific to Shopify Image Pipeline in 5 Minutes
Generate a 4096px hero in Magnific in under a minute Resize to four responsive variants with a six-line bash script Push every variant to Shopify...
Shopify Functions Replaced 8 Apps In One Saturday
Cancelled 8 paid apps in one Saturday and dropped 180 EUR/month off the app bill to zero recurring spend Shopify Functions ship as compiled wasm...
5 Vercel Edge Config Patterns I Use For Shopify A/B Tests
Edge Config reads in ~15ms at the edge, no cold start, no extra request to Shopify I cut a 50 EUR/month LaunchDarkly bill to 0...
5 Cloudflare Workers Patterns I Use for Shopify Edge Logic
5 production Cloudflare Workers patterns for Shopify backends: A/B testing, geo banners, signed customer URLs, AI personalization, webhook buffer queues.
The 5 Postgres Extensions Every Shopify Backend Needs
pg_cron, pgvector, pg_partman, pg_stat_statements, postgres_fdw. The five extensions that turn generic Postgres into a Shopify-aware database.
The 8 Drizzle ORM Patterns I Use in Every Shopify Backend
Schema-first pgTable definitions and drizzle-kit migrations keep my Shopify backend predictable across 6 projects. Type-safe joins with the relations API and partial selects shaved 380ms...
Shopify Theme Performance: From 62 to 98 Lighthouse in One Weekend
I took raxxo.shop from a 62 Lighthouse mobile score to 98 without leaving the Liquid theme, and this is the exact punch list. The biggest...
Shopify Section Schema Patterns Editors Actually Love
Range inputs with step 2 and sensible min/max stopped merchant emails about broken spacing on my Shopify theme. Conditional blocks plus block-level max settings keep...
Shopify Metaobjects Killed My Headless CMS in One Saturday
Metaobjects are native Shopify content types, free on every plan, addressable from Liquid without extra API calls Moved 120 entries out of Contentful in 4...
Shopify April 2026 Breaking Changes: What Developers Must Fix
Shopify now requires expiring offline access tokens for all new public apps as of April 1 Partner organizations must use role-based access control for all...
Shopify Just Gave AI Agents the Keys to Your Store
Shopify shipped an AI Toolkit that lets coding agents manage your store through MCP. Live docs, API schemas, and validated operations. Here is what it...