Technical best practices
There was such a variety of topics on technical best practices shared at Shopify Unite that it’s hard to categorize them by common patterns. We covered:
Amos Shacham from BOA Ideas and Nir Rehav from SodaStream International presented about developing an international ecommerce infrastructure used across 14+ markets
Natalie Parker from Auctane talked about their experience simplifying the management of boilerplate templates for coding projects using open source software
Gordon So and Tico van Beurden from Ask Phill shared how they made React developers love to code on Liquid projects
Alexandra Edelstein from Klaviyo cambodia telegram screening presented their work to build an API-first platform to increase app interoperability within Shopify’s growing partner ecosystem
Niks Evalds from Printful gave us insights on how they tackled one of the top concerns for every ecommerce business: managing delivery expectations for customers
Kaus Manjita from Mason talked about using a LEGO-like approach to application architecture to modularize ecommerce apps
Max Rolon from Half Helix took a dive into different strategies used to build custom theme storefronts for merchants with complex requirements while digesting and adopting Online Store 2.0 theme development principles
Peter Tivy and Jordan Binotto from Teifi shared how they used the new Shopify Content Platform to empower merchants to manage content and complex data, and how they plan to use it in premium themes
Blake Waldron from Convert Digital explored everything from small, quick changes that you can implement on your Shopify themes that will have an immediate positive impact on performance, all the way to how to approach a total theme optimization
Tom Fulcher from Okendo presented the thrilling journey of integrating their reviews widgets with a Hydrogen store in six weeks, with no client side.