Shopify App Starter Kit

The Rails app with appropriate tools for quick starting developing shopify app.

How to install?

1. git clone https://github.com/ASoftCo/shopify-app-starter-kit.git
2. cd shopify-app-starter-kit
3. git remote set-url origin new_git_repo_url
4. bundle install && bundle exec rails db:create db:migrate
5. Install and run Redis
6. Rename the app module in the config/application.rb file
7. Install ngrok
8. Create a new app in your shopify partner account

• use ngrok url as a App URL in the App setup section
• add whitelisted redirection URL(s):
  http://<your_ngrok_host>/auth/shopify/callback
  https://<your_ngrok_host>/auth/shopify/callback

9. rails credentials:edit and add all settings from config/credentials_sample.yml
10. Change all credential values in your config/credentials.yml.enc file to appropriate ones.

• change api_key and secret (can be found at the App setup section)
• change host setting to your ngrok url
• add necessary shopify scopes
• add necessary shopify webhooks

11. Add necessary workers to the app/jobs/ directory (e.g. if you add orders/create webhook, you should create orders_create_job.rb worker)
12. For UI and CSS styles read about Polaris or Uptown CSS

Monitoring

There are several monitoring tools: New Relic, Sentry and Mixpanel. All that you need to do is to change the values of appropriate keys (new_relic_license_key, sentry_dsn, mix_panel_token) for your environment in the config/credentials.yml.enc file.