Liquid templating, custom theme development with Dawn, Shopify apps with Remix and GraphQL, checkout extensions, and storefront performance optimization. The Shopify developer course for engineers who want to build custom e-commerce solutions.
This is a text-first course that links out to the best supporting material on the internet instead of trying to replace it. The goal is to make this the best course on shopify you can find — even without producing a single minute of custom video.
This course is built by engineers who ship shopify systems in production. It reflects how these tools actually behave at scale — not how the documentation describes them.
Every day includes working code examples you can copy, run, and modify right now. The goal is understanding through doing.
Instead of re-explaining existing documentation, this course links to the definitive open-source implementations and the best reference material on shopify available on the internet.
Each day is designed for about an hour of focused reading plus hands-on work. Do the whole course over a week of lunch breaks. No calendar commitment, no live classes, no quizzes.
Each day stands alone. Read them in order for the full picture, or jump straight to the day that answers the question you have today.
Liquid syntax (objects, filters, tags), the Dawn theme structure, sections, blocks, schema settings, theme app extensions, and the template inheritance model that makes Shopify themes customizable without touching code.
Shopify CLI for local development, theme check linting, section groups, metafields for custom data, the Storefront API for headless queries, and the OnlineStore 2.0 model that replaced legacy theme architecture.
The Shopify app bridge, Remix for app routing and data loading, Admin GraphQL API for reading/writing store data, OAuth app installation flow, and the App Context model that scopes API calls to specific stores.
Checkout UI extensions (checkout.liquid is deprecated), post-purchase upsells with checkout.postPurchase, Shopify Payments vs third-party gateways, and the Checkout Branding API for styling without losing extensibility.
Storefront performance metrics, lazy loading, image optimization with the img_url filter, CDN configuration, A/B testing with app blocks, and the checklist for launching a production Shopify store.
Instead of shooting our own videos, we link to the best deep-dives already on YouTube. Watch them alongside the course. All external, all free, all from builders who ship this stuff.
Complete walkthroughs of Liquid templating, Dawn theme customization, and section/block architecture for Shopify themes.
Building Shopify apps with the Remix framework, Admin API, and the OAuth installation flow — the official Shopify app stack.
Querying and mutating store data with the Shopify Admin GraphQL API — products, orders, customers, and metafields.
Building checkout UI extensions — the modern way to customize the Shopify checkout without deprecated checkout.liquid.
Core Web Vitals for Shopify stores, image optimization, lazy loading, and the performance improvements that increase conversion rates.
The best way to deepen understanding is to read the canonical open-source implementations. Clone them, trace the code, understand how the concepts in this course get applied in production.
Shopify's official reference theme. The canonical starting point and reference for modern OnlineStore 2.0 theme development.
The official Shopify app framework packages for Node.js and Remix — the auth, session, and API client libraries used in this course.
The Shopify CLI for local theme and app development. The source shows how the dev server, theme sync, and deployment commands work.
Shopify's design system. Every embedded Shopify app should use Polaris components to match the Admin UI and reduce development time.
Shopify is one of the most in-demand freelance skills. This course gives you the Liquid, theme, and app development skills clients pay for.
Standard Shopify themes don't do everything. This course covers the app and checkout extension patterns for building the features Shopify doesn't include out of the box.
Shopify's platform is larger and more complex than it looks. This course gives full-stack engineers the platform-specific knowledge to work in it effectively.
The 2-day in-person Precision AI Academy bootcamp covers Shopify development and e-commerce engineering in depth — hands-on, with practitioners who build AI systems for a living. 5 U.S. cities. $1,490. 40 seats max. June–October 2026 (Thu–Fri).
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