What's it like to be a Shopify developer ?
What's it like to be a Shopify developer ?
How is Shopify as a platform to work on compared to the likes of Wordpress and Salesforce Commerce Cloud.
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Pretty bad.
With Shopify you can't run anything locally, it's all in their cloud. So you're constantly typing CSS into a textbox in a web site. Also pretty much every Shopify plugin ("app") costs $5 or $10 per month which adds up fast. Wordpress plugins are pretty money hungry too but it's much worse on Shopify.
It's ok if you're just making small tweaks to a theme that is already 80% of what you need.
Wait isn't there something called Hydrogen framework by Shopify. I thought it ran locally.
It's been a couple of years since I did Shopify development so things could have changed / improved since then.
Yeah I remember there being a way to use a local IDE but no way to do a local development environment.
I never learned Shopify because while it's free to start it's a subscription which for someone learning isn't good.
I'm glad I didn't though, now I just build the e-commerce platform custom and slap a stripe API for checking out on it.