Upcoming Rewrite

[kinngh]

Hey everyone!

Over the last few months I've had focus more on the Next.js x Prisma repository more than Express purely because of ease of use. I believe as the project and repositories grew I moved on to a certain extent from this repo with a lot of devs now pointing out issues on things breaking (and quickly being fixed).

In the background I've been doing a rewrite of the entire repository - The idea behind building these projects was not just to share how I build apps, but to also have a great place for starters to begin their Shopify app dev journey and for senior developers to fork and add their own libraries and frameworks on top of it. Over the last few weeks, because of my divided attention and new projects I lost sight of that goal and the reason why so many of you like my projects - simplicity and stability.

The rewrite, while not a major one, ensures a lot of workarounds and opinionated packages are removed. This includes streamlining Vite to work great in one shot instead of having separate port packages, streamlining how checkout extensions are built, swaping out raviger with react-router-dom and simplifying routing and more.

Also overhauling a bunch of the documentation and video(s) so it's more up to date with a growing snippet library to make building Shopify apps simpler.

More on this when the August release comes out - that's when I plan on shipping the rewrite.

Edit [July 18]

After spending considerable amount of time, I've decided not to move away from Raviger. Instead, the rewrite would focus more on usability. More details on this once the roadmap is realigned^