How is Shopify as a platform to work on compared to the likes of Wordpress and Salesforce Commerce Cloud.
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.
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.
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.
