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Effect-TS in Production: 4 Patterns I Use Across Shopify Backends
Effect-TS replaced try/catch and ad-hoc retries across 3 Shopify backends and cut error-handling code by roughly 40 percent Pattern 1: Effect.tryPromise wraps Shopify Admin API...
Theme App Extensions vs Section Schemas in 2026: When to Pick Which
Theme App Extensions ship blocks across many themes via the App Store, ideal for distributed apps with version control Local section schemas live in the...
Build a Telegram Alert Bot for Shopify Orders in 30 Lines of TypeScript
A Bun serverless function on Vercel turns Shopify orders/create webhooks into Telegram pings in under 5s HMAC verification with the webhook secret stops random POSTs...
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...
Build 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...