shopify-app-template-node VS shopify_app

I tried building a sample app using this link https://github.com/Shopify/shopify-app-template-node sometime back. I was able to run the test app and connect with my development store.

Upon some digging and viewing the Shopify app starter (https://github.com/Shopify/shopify-app-template-node/tree/cli_three) that uses Vite + Express, it looks like the answer lies in somehow proxying(?) the frontend to the backend if in development mode, but I haven't been able to crack it.

Building a Shopify App with anything outside React or Rails can be daunting; you’re on your own for the most part. Since I figured it out with my crew using VueJs: we’ve decided to Open Source the template.

I tried the relative path and that didn't work either. I think the issue is that since it's a Shopify app, all routes are behind oauth. My thinking is that I need to host the stylesheet where it is publicly accessible. Then call it in a similar manner to the google drive folder. This is what was used to scaffold the project. Line 91 is the server side code where oauth is checked for every route

Thanks for the response! Let me dive into that. I am using a custom server but it was scaffolded from Shopify's CLI so I would *assume* POST forwarding would be configured. This is a link to server.js.

I'm building a Shopify App scaffolded with the CLI and have issues with routing using the Nextjs router. The standard embedded app implementation does not update the URL so a RoutePropagator component is needed.

Thanks for the resources! The issue was that I was (intentionally) using a branch from the Shopify CLI that removed the use of Next.js. Because Next.js wasn't used, simply putting the remote script in a Public folder wouldn't work. I ended up switching back to the main branch that used Next.js and the script now renders on my development theme :)

link: https://github.com/Shopify/shopify-app-node/pull/661

Then open the Gemfile and add Shopify app gem into it

Shopify provides a number of webhooks that we can subscribe to at the shop-level. One of them is the app/uninstalled webhook, which will allow us to receive a request any time a merchant uninstalls the Shopify app from their shop. The shopify_app gem provides a lot of the webhook endpoint setup behind the scenes, the details of which are outside the scope of this article but you can learn more here if you’d like. What is relevant is that we can configure webhooks and add a background job that is named based on the webhook topic, which will automatically be invoked when the webhook is received.

Building a Shopify App with anything outside React or Rails can be daunting; you’re on your own for the most part. Since I figured it out with my crew using VueJs: we’ve decided to Open Source the template.