Transition, the hidden star of Headless UI. — The best mobile apps, like Airbnb and Spotify, are fun to use. But what makes them so great? Yes, they have an outstanding UI and UX. But what separates them are these little animations on page transitions and for other user interactions. I create web apps, and most of the…

Steps to create a Shopify online shop with Next.js and the Storefront API. — When you decide to create a custom online shop with Shopify, you can program a standard Liquid-based theme or use the Shopify storefront API. Using Shopify as a headless backend and developing the frontend in Next.js or the future, Hydrogen is a good option when performance and custom control are…

I recently used the Shopify Dawn theme for most of my new projects. It’s okay for 90% of my requirements, but I always have to create custom sections not included in the standard feature set. I prefer Tailwind for almost all of my web projects. Therefore I wanted to use it for custom sections as well. In this tutorial video, I show you how to set up Tailwind together with the Dawn theme and create a custom section.

Selling in multiple languages increases sales. With Shopify, it seems to be challenging, but it isn’t. — Step 1: Translate Your Products and Other Resources Products and other resources like variants, collections, pages, blog posts, etc., are managed in Shopify admin. Shopify added native support for multiple languages via an API recently. Unfortunately, it comes without an admin interface for the shop owner.

Simple yet powerful state management for your Next.js app. — When creating a Next.js application, there are often situations where you want to share data (or state) across several pages. Some examples are: On an e-commerce site, this can be the cart ID or the number of items in the basket you want to share across your Next.js pages. On…

Simple workflow for fetching and storing data from the Supabase database using the SWR fetching library for authenticated users. — Next.js and Supabase are fantastic technologies. With Supabase, you get a real database in the cloud. But best of all, it comes with authentication, managing user data, row-level security, database functions, and storage built-in. With Supabase you can combine all those tools, which reduces complexity significantly.

Shopify Hydrogen is the biggest change in the history of e-commerce. And Content Editor will help you manage your text and images with Hydrogen. — How does a normal shop visitor experience Shopify Hydrogen? You will notice it by the fact that the page load times will be much faster. 10x faster. 100ms to 300ms will be the new normal, and we will get an instant shopping experience. I expect many online shops will shift to this paradigm in the following years.

One of my clients owns a Shopify store (Advanced Shopify Plan) with around 15k products. We manage the products in an external system and create/update the products in Shopify via a custom private app using the REST API. Facebook marketing…

With Online Store 2.0, Shopify introduced an awesome GitHub integration. We at Checkout Agency use the new Dawn theme as a basis for many of our latest projects. Here I quickly outline our development setup. Update 1/4/2022: Appended section: Pull back changes made on the development theme editor. First, please…