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Shopify Application Development

Shopify Application Development

By : Michael Larkin
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Shopify Application Development

Shopify Application Development

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By: Michael Larkin
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Overview of this book

This is an easy-to follow manual that will guide you through the entire process of application development with Shopify, beginning with the installation and configuration of your local development environment for your app to the deployment of the app to Heroku. If you are a web developer or a designer who wants to extend Shopify stores by building apps, then this book is for you. A basic understanding of programming concepts and some familiarity with Shopify is all that is required to get started with Shopify app development.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Shopify Application Development
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Shopify Application Development
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Preface
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Getting Started with Shopify
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Getting Started with Shopify
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Revealing Shopify's power
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Deciding which type of app to build
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Discovering the API
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Exploring webhooks
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Getting ready to build an app
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Summary
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Setting Up
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Setting Up
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Choosing a development tool
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Setting up our development environment
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Installing Rails
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Installing Twitter Bootstrap
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Setting up source control
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Deploying to Heroku
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Building a Private App
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Building a Private App
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Signing up for Shopify
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Understanding our workflow
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Building the application
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Going Public
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Going Public
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High-level requirements
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App Billing and Publication
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App Billing and Publication
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High-level requirements
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Index
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Index

Setting up source control

At this point, it's a good idea to add our code to a hosted source control. This serves two purposes: the first is that it gives us a record of incremental changes made to each code file, and also acts as an off-site backup in case our development machine gets damaged or has a hard drive failure.

We'll be using Git (http://git-scm.com) as our Source Control Management (SCM) tool. If you don't have Git installed on your system, please follow the relevant installation instructions on the site. Additionally, we're going to use GitHub (http://github.com) as our off-site backup. There are other popular alternatives such as Bitbucket (http://bitbucket.org) or Unfuddle (http://unfuddle.com) that work just as well.

The workflow may vary depending on which service you use, but in general setting up a new repository involves the following steps:

  1. Create a repository on the hosted service of your choice.

  2. Initialize a new local repository using the following command:

    git init.

  3. Add...

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