The Technology Behind Our Solutions

Shopify is a leading e-commerce platform that enables businesses and individuals to build online stores and sell products.

Founded in 2006 by Tobias Lütke, Daniel Weinand, and Scott Lake, Shopify has grown to become one of the most popular platforms for setting up online shops.

The Shopify App Store offers thousands of apps that extend the functionality of a store, ranging from marketing tools and social media integrations to shipping and inventory management solutions. For nearly every requirement, there’s an app available.

Shopify is designed to make online stores visible in search engines. With built-in SEO features, merchants can improve their store’s visibility by adjusting meta tags, alt text, and URLs. Additionally, numerous marketing tools are available to manage email marketing, promotions, and discounts.

React is a widely-used JavaScript library for building user interfaces (UI). Since its release in 2013, React has revolutionized how web applications are built by introducing a component-based model that promotes reusability, efficiency, and maintainability.

The key concept of React is componentization. In React, UIs are broken down into reusable, independent components, each representing a part of the UI. These components are self-contained modules that manage both state and display logic. Developers can reuse these components throughout their application, which speeds up development and ensures consistency.

React Native is a framework that enables developers to build mobile applications for iOS and Android using JavaScript and React. Since its introduction in 2015, React Native has become one of the most popular technologies for cross-platform app development. It uses the same principles as React, focusing on building user interfaces (UIs).

One of the biggest advantages of React Native is that it allows developers to build applications for both iOS and Android with a single codebase. Unlike traditional approaches where separate apps must be developed for each platform (e.g., Swift for iOS and Kotlin or Java for Android), most of the React Native code can be shared between iOS and Android apps, saving both development time and costs.

Next.js is a popular React framework developed by Vercel that enables developers to build powerful web applications and websites. It was designed to address some of the common challenges with React, particularly regarding server-side rendering (SSR) and static site generation (SSG). Next.js provides a suite of useful features and tools that make it easier for developers to efficiently build complex applications.

One of the core features of Next.js is its ability to render content on the server before it is sent to the client. Unlike traditional React, where rendering happens primarily on the client side, SSR offers faster initial load times and improved SEO, which is especially important for websites that rely heavily on search engine visibility, such as blogs, e-commerce sites, or news portals.

Remix is a modern full-stack web framework built on top of React, focused on enhancing the user experience by optimizing the use of web standards and server-side capabilities. Remix was developed by Michael Jackson and Ryan Florence, the creators of React Router, and was first released in 2020. It is designed to solve problems related to data management, routing, and performance in modern web applications while keeping the focus on delivering an exceptional user experience.

Remix allows developers to implement both server-side and client-side logic in a single codebase. It emphasizes tight integration between server and client technologies, making data exchange more efficient.

A key concept in Remix is progressive enhancement, which ensures that web applications function even when advanced features like JavaScript are unavailable. Remix renders HTML on the server, ensuring the core functionality of the application is intact without JavaScript. JavaScript is then added for interactivity and dynamic features, but the app’s structure remains robust. We develop our Shopify Apps exclusively with Remix.

Electron is a tool that allows you to create computer programs that look and function like normal desktop applications, but are built using the same technologies that are used for websites. This means that developers who typically create websites can leverage their skills to develop computer programs as well.

A major advantage of Electron is that it works across different operating systems, so whether the desktop application is run on a Windows PC, a Mac, or a Linux computer, the program works the same everywhere.