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    Shopify Application Development
    Shopify Application Development
    Shopify Application Development
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    Shopify Application Development

    By Michael Larkin

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateMay 26, 2014
    ISBN9781783281060
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      Shopify Application Development - Michael Larkin

      Table of Contents

      Shopify Application Development

      Credits

      About the Author

      About the Reviewers

      www.PacktPub.com

      Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more

      Why subscribe?

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      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the example code

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Getting Started with Shopify

      Revealing Shopify's power

      Deciding which type of app to build

      Discovering the API

      Exploring webhooks

      Orders

      Products

      Shop/Application

      Getting ready to build an app

      Summary

      2. Setting Up

      Choosing a development tool

      Setting up our development environment

      Installing a Ruby management tool

      Installing Ruby

      Creating the application directory

      Installing Rails

      Generating a Rails app

      Installing Twitter Bootstrap

      Setting up source control

      Deploying to Heroku

      Summary

      3. Building a Private App

      Signing up for Shopify

      Understanding our workflow

      Building the application

      High-level requirements

      Installing a few necessary gems

      Storing Shopify API credentials

      Connecting to Shopify

      Retrieving product information from Shopify

      Retrieving order information from Shopify

      Cleaning up the UI

      Updating the sidebar

      Updating orders, products, and variants

      Cleaning up the rest of the site

      Picking a winner from a list

      Creating contests

      Summary

      4. Going Public

      High-level requirements

      Supporting multiple accounts

      Authorizing user access to data

      Verifying Shopify requests

      Verifying HTTP GET/POST requests

      Verifying webhook requests

      Installing from the Shopify App Store

      Subscribing to and processing Shopify Webhooks

      Summary

      5. App Billing and Publication

      High-level requirements

      Adding free and paid plans

      Integrating with the Shopify Billing API

      Supporting recurring charges

      Publishing in the Shopify App Store

      Summary

      Index

      Shopify Application Development

      Shopify Application Development

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      Credits

      Author

      Michael Larkin

      Reviewers

      Joey deVilla

      Christophe Favresse

      M. Scott Ford

      Will Rossiter

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      About the Author

      Michael Larkin has been building software professionally for over a decade and has worked on large and small projects for companies across the globe. He has been working with Shopify for over five years and has co-created the first ever Shopify app, available at http://fetchapp.com. He has also worked on dozens of Shopify stores for which he built custom applications, modified existing themes, and added complex JavaScript to enhance the shopper's experience.

      I would like to thank my wife, Sarah, for her help and patience while I was writing this book. I'd also like to thank my colleagues and friends who offered their professional and technical expertise as reviewers. Additionally, I'd like to thank the folks over at Jaded Pixel for creating such an excellent platform. Finally, I'd like to thank Packt Publishing for making all of this possible.

      About the Reviewers

      Joey deVilla has worked on all sorts of projects, such as creating Olympic athlete training software, CD-ROM directories for every mall in America with Visual Basic, Python-powered gift certificates, travel agency websites, the frontend for the censorship-thwarting project Peekabooty in C++, Duke of URL in PHP that suggests domain names, and a failed social networking app for frat dudes and dudettes in Ruby on Rails. He's also done some technical evangelism for OpenCola, Tucows, Microsoft, and Shopify. He's currently stirring up trouble in the mobile industry, and when he's not doing that, he's stirring up trouble playing Nine Inch Nails, AC/DC, and Britney Spears on his accordion.

      I'd like to thank my family and Anitra for helping me during some really crazy times.

      Christophe Favresse developed a passion for e-commerce technologies, and in early 2013, launched his wife's online retail business (www.favresse.com) powered by Shopify and Amazon fulfillment services. In less than one year, this website attracted customers from eight EU countries and the U.S. Christophe, an international sales executive in the software industry, has spent the last 15 years prospecting telecom operators and providing CRM, marketing, and risk assurance solutions to optimize their customer lifetime value and revenues. He has spent two years in Thailand and 15 years in the UK. He currently lives near Nice (France) with his wife and four children. He holds a master's degree in International Marketing from Michael Smurfit School of Business (Ireland) and a bachelor's degree in Economics from Solvay Brussels School (Belgium).

      M. Scott Ford has been developing software for the last 15 years. He's worked in many industries, from aerospace to e-commerce. His goal is to stay a polyglot developer. He's worked with many different languages and frameworks over the years, but his favorites are Ruby, JavaScript, and Objective-C.

      Scott is the founder of corgibytes (http://corgibytes.com), a consulting company with a focus on legacy applications. This is where he applies a pragmatic, test-focused approach to working with existing code. This results in a new life for apps that would otherwise have to be rewritten or abandoned.

      Will Rossiter is a Senior Web Developer for DNA Design in New Zealand; he oversees the architecture, development, and maintenance of large-scale web applications across a range of platforms and technologies, including Shopify, WordPress, SilverStripe, Node.js, and Ruby on Rails. He is the creator and maintainer of the grunt-shopify plugin for publishing Shopify themes.

      Zac Williams is a Full Stack Web Developer from Birmingham, Alabama with over 10 years of experience. Although he has experience with a variety of frameworks and languages, his specialties are Ruby on Rails and JavaScript. He has experience working on high-traffic web applications across multiple industries, such as e-commerce, healthcare, and higher education.

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