Build A Shopify App #0 - Introduction

This video is an intro to the series where we build a small Shopify app together! The point of this app is to learn the basics of Shopify app development through "doing", we'll keep the codebase and feature set small, but learn a lot in the process!
*There is a newer version of the template and Shopify API available, so in this video I’m addressing the changes and how I plan to finish this series.*
GitHub repo to follow along with the code:
github.com/RAAbbott/Build-A-S...
Each branch in the above GitHub repo corresponds to a video in the series, you can refer to it to see all the changes I'm making in the video!
Please let me know in the comments down below if you have any questions or run into any problems while following along in the video, I'd love to help out in any way I can. Feedback and constructive criticism is also highly appreciated!
And don't forget to follow me on Twitter! / devwithalex
🔗 LINKS
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Part 1 of Series:
• Build A Shopify App #1...
GitHub repo to follow along with the code:
github.com/RAAbbott/Build-A-S...
Shopify Devs Discord (I'm in there!):
/ discord
✉️ INQUIRIES
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Email: [e-mail]
Twitter: / devwithalex
🙋🏽‍♂️ About Me
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Hi there! My name is Alex and I have been programming (mostly self-taught) for over 4 years now. Programming has changed my life for the better, and I am on a mission to share my knowledge with you so that you can reap the rewards of a satisfying and fulfilling career in software development. My favorite thing about software development is that you are constantly learning, and I want to share the things I learn with you! I am always looking for ways to improve and new things to learn, so feel free to reach out or leave a comment letting me know where I can improve or if I should cover a specific topic!

[@LucianoVannelli]

Please keep going with this series, currently I am trying to create an app for my company and its hard to find good tutorials to do so. You are very good explaining this

[@brandon_shopify_expert]

Awesome! Thanks for the update!

[@tanmaykejriwal5887]

He is so good literally the best

[@jamiroal86]

Thanks for this, you rock 🤙

[@devwithalex]

🔥

[@tanmaykejriwal5887]

After learning from you , I built a complete image compressing app and about to publish soon !

[@devwithalex]

Amazing, congrats!

[@nelson3design473]

thanks for the initiative. I would like that at the end of the series you teach how to deploy. and talking about shopify app entension

[@devwithalex]

I'll for sure be talking about deploying your app after this series, I will add app extensions to the list as well. Thanks!

[@nehagawali461]

Plzz make video on product recommendation or show related product...

[@devwithalex]

Good idea, I can add it to my list!

[@reecebernard8178]

Will you be going over how to connect to an external db, not just the SQLite, I am having huge issues using the latest api to connect to Mongo

[@devwithalex]

I assume you're referring to session storage, I've heard about the new API changes making that more difficult so I'll have to do some research and make a video a bit later, after this series!

[@manojbhatt410]

How can I learn react and node js fastly? Because I want to create public app for shopify

[@devwithalex]

If you have no prior programming experience, it'll be difficult. I'd personally start by creating simple projects with Javascript/react to get the basics down. If your goal is to build a Shopify app then I'd probably use Gadget (gadget.dev/) since it's the quickest way to build a Shopify app and takes care of a lot of the backend.

[@stephanodev]

When is part 3 coming?

[@devwithalex]

Actively working on it now! It will be a bigger video going over Polaris and building out the UI of the app, so it's taking a bit longer than expected

[@NazninRimi]

Waiting for the next video. When will the next video be uploaded?

[@devwithalex]

I'm hoping to get it out by this weekend

[@mikew6739]

Hi, Alex, thanks for the awesome video! I just started learning how to develop shopify app and your video helps a lot. However, when I fork your code and try to run it, it throws an error as the follows. I wonder if you can give any suggestion, thank you very much!
The Partners GraphQL API responded unsuccessfully with the HTTP status 200 and errors: │
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│ [ │
│ { │
│ "message": "Unexpected system error", │
│ "extensions": { │
│ "code": "500" │
│ } │
│ } │
│ ]