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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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Chapter 3. Building a Private App

We will be expanding the application we started in the previous chapter to include the ability to organize simple contests and select a winner. It'll start out as a private application tied to a development Shopify account. Later on, we'll refactor the code to support multiple shops and publish it in the Shopify App Store.

Even though the app will be simple and only take a few hours to build, we'll still use good development practices to ensure we create a solid foundation. There are many different approaches to software development and discussing even a fraction of them is beyond the scope of this book. Instead, we'll use a few common concepts, such as requirements gathering, milestones, Test-Driven Development ...

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