Question on how to update shopify application handle

[john-kuo]

Hello @kinngh, I ran into another question on updating the application handle.
For example, given a shop admin URL at https://admin.shopify.com/store/skibummm/apps/app-handle.

Was looking at the app config documentation, it says we need to update it in the TOML file, but it looks like we are getting this config from the .env file. I updated it inside .env and in shopify.js as

const shopify = shopifyApi({ apiKey: process.env.SHOPIFY_API_KEY, apiSecretKey: process.env.SHOPIFY_API_SECRET, name: process.env.SHOPIFY_APP_NAME, handle: process.env.SHOPIFY_APP_HANDLE, scopes: process.env.SHOPIFY_API_SCOPES, hostName: process.env.SHOPIFY_APP_URL.replace(/https:\/\//, ""), hostScheme: "https", apiVersion: process.env.SHOPIFY_API_VERSION, isEmbeddedApp: true, logger: { level: isDev ? 1 : 0 }, //Error = 0,Warning = 1,Info = 2,Debug = 3 });

I added the handle field, but it didn't update it correctly.

Any insights into this? Thanks!

[kinngh]

You don't need to add handle to the shopify.js file at all. Just add in the handle to your .env as regular text like my-app or next-project. You might get the error that handle isn't unique and that means you'll have to change the handle, mostly adding a prefix works, and then you can run npm run update:config and it'll make the updates.

If your app already has a handle, add it as is. Going by your screenshot, your .env should look something like this:

APP_NAME="Festival King"
APP_HANDLE="roulette-development"

[kinngh]

Actually, show me your toml file too? Ensure you redact all the values except for handle

[john-kuo]

ya, resetting didn't work either

`
name = "Festival King"
handle = "festival-king"
client_id = ""
application_url = ""
embedded = true
extension_directories = [ "extension/extensions/*" ]

[auth]
redirect_urls = [
"",
""
]

[access_scopes]
scopes = "write_products,read_themes,write_themes, read_discounts, write_discounts, read_price_rules, write_price_rules"
use_legacy_install_flow = true

[webhooks]
api_version = "2024-01"

[webhooks.privacy_compliance]
customer_data_request_url = ""
customer_deletion_url = ""
shop_deletion_url = ""

[app_proxy]
url = ""
prefix = "apps"
subpath = "express-proxy"

[pos]
embedded = false

[build]
include_config_on_deploy = true
`

[kinngh]

Can you DM me on Twitter so we can setup a call? I want to see what can be done

[kinngh]

Answer: The user had the older shopify-cli installed from homebrew. Uninstalling the older gem and then installing the new CLI tools via npm run g:install script in package.json worked as expected.