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Shopify Application Development
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Shopify Application Development

by Michael Larkin
May 2014
Intermediate to advanced
106 pages
2h 11m
English
Packt Publishing
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Getting ready to build an app

If you've decided that you need to build an app, then the next step is to ask yourself the following questions:

  • What exactly does the app need to do?
  • Will the app be private or public?
  • Who will be developing the app?
  • Who will be designing the UI?
  • What is the budget and timeline?

Once you've answered these questions, you should have a rough idea of the big pieces involved in creating the app. The set of features required to build a software is often referred to as the scope.

Determining an application's scope even at a high level is a skill that requires practice. This typically starts as a document that lists the overall purpose, feature list, integration points with Shopify (if known), dependencies on external services ...

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