Shopify Development
In development. Taking enquiries.
- ·Theme work, and apps where the storefront needs behaviour the platform does not ship.
- ·The platform's own limits get named at scoping, because they decide what is cheap here and what is expensive.
| Becomes live when | A development store a stranger can view is published, or a recorded walkthrough alongside a public theme or app repository. |
| Built with | REST APIs · TypeScript · Node.js |
| Delivered by | · api-designer · |
| Skills used | web-qualify · shopify-build · web-handoff |
What this involves
The advantage of a hosted platform is that payments, compliance and uptime stop being your problem. The cost is that the platform's limits are yours, and the useful part of a scoping conversation is naming which of them will bite: what the checkout will and will not allow, what has to become an app because the theme cannot do it, and where the platform's own pricing changes the arithmetic of the build.
Theme work covers the storefront a customer sees. App work covers the behaviour the platform does not ship, and it is a different quote, because an app carries a review process and an ongoing maintenance obligation that a theme does not.
Nothing is published under this heading yet. The condition is stated above and offers two ways to satisfy it, because a development store is not always something that can be shared.
How the work runs
1. Discovery
We agree what the project has to achieve, what it must not break, and how we will both know it worked, before any code is written.
2. Build
The work is built with an AI agent as the working partner and a human reviewing every change before it lands. You get commits you can read rather than a status update.
3. Review
You review running software at each milestone, not a screenshot of it, and the next milestone absorbs what you send back.
4. Launch
We deploy to production with checks in the pipeline and alerting that reaches a human, and you hold the repository and the infrastructure accounts.
Questions people actually ask
When is a hosted platform the wrong choice?
When the business model needs something the checkout will not do. Unusual pricing rules, complex bundles, and B2B terms are the usual collisions. It is much cheaper to find that out in a scoping call than in month three of a build.
Theme customisation or a custom app?
Theme work for anything about how the store looks and how a customer moves through it. An app only when behaviour is needed that the platform does not provide, because an app is a longer-lived commitment: it has a review process and it needs maintaining as the platform changes.
Why is there nothing to look at?
Because no development store or public theme repository has been published yet. Development stores cannot always be shared, so the stated condition allows either a viewable store or a recorded walkthrough alongside a public repository.