Turn fashion and lifestyle store ideas into production Shopify builds — Liquid themes, Storefront and Admin APIs, ShopifyQL analytics, checkout extensions, and agent-ready UCP commerce.
About Shopify APIsAuthentication, versioning, rate limits, and cross-API topics that power every integration — the same reference stack used to launch and grow client stores.
Technologies that power every store
Every integration below maps to shopify.dev/docs/api — the same stack used to build, launch, and grow client stores.
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Essential tools and packages for building on Shopify — CLI, dev stores, libraries, and app scaffolds.
Shopify CLI
Generate apps and extensions, run dev servers, and deploy projects.
React Router app package
Shopify's recommended package for building apps with React Router v7+.
Dev stores
Development stores for testing apps, themes, and checkout flows.
Libraries and templates
API libraries for Ruby, Node, PHP, Go, and .NET plus app templates.
APP DATA AND LOGIC
Core APIs and backend tools for reading, writing, and reacting to store data in real time.
GraphQL Admin API
Products, customers, orders, inventory, and admin extensions.
Shopify Functions
Customize backend logic for discounts, payments, and delivery.
Events
Subscribe to granular GraphQL Admin object changes.
Webhooks
Listen for store events and trigger your own logic.
Payments Apps API
Manage payments, refunds, and payment apps.
POLARIS · EXTEND SURFACES
Interfaces that render natively across admin, checkout, customer accounts, and POS.
App Home
Build and customize your app's home page in the admin.
Admin UI extensions
Deeper integration into the Shopify admin.
Checkout UI extensions
Extend checkout and customize the buyer experience.
Customer account UI extensions
Extensions for customer account pages.
POS UI extensions
POS extensions, loyalty, and product recommendations.
STOREFRONTS
Buyer-facing storefronts — headless commerce, themes, identity, and privacy.
Storefront API
Custom shopping experiences for web, mobile, and more.
ShopifyQL
Query store data with an SQL-like language.
Liquid
Build or customize themes with the Liquid template language.
Ajax API
Dynamic elements on online stores with a lightweight JSON API.
Hydrogen framework
Full-stack React storefronts with SSR and hosting.
Hydrogen React library
Cart, Shop Pay, and storefront hooks for any React app.
Storefront Web Components
Embedded HTML components for any website.
Customer Privacy API
Consent and privacy preferences for storefronts.
Customer Account API
Single sign-on customer data across surfaces.
APP MANAGEMENT
Automate Partner Dashboard operations and track app behaviour, billing, and usage.
ADDITIONAL APIS
Complementary APIs for analytics, identity, and wallet checkout.
Framework · Liquid
Liquid tags, filters, and objects for dynamic themes — sections, snippets, product data, and merchant-ready storefronts across every surface in the Shopify API reference.
{% if product.available %} {{ product.title | upcase }}{% else %} Sold out{% endif %}Analytics · ShopifyQL
SQL-like queries over store data — sales, orders, and merchandising insights with the same syntax palette as the Shopify dev reference.
FROM sales
SHOW total_sales, orders
WHERE product_type = 'Fashion'
SINCE -30dUCP · Agents
Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) connects your agent, buyer profile, and Shopify storefront — discovery, carts, checkout handoff, and order tracking through Shopify's agent toolkit. Shopify agents & UCP.