Developer Tools

Shopify provides a range of software tools and libraries to accelerate your development process.

App development tools

Partner Dashboard - Get API credentials, track metrics for your published apps, create development stores, and access resources that help you build your business.
Shopify App CLI: Bootstrap a working Shopify app with our command-line tool.
Shopify App Generator for Rails: A Rails engine for building Shopify apps.
App Bridge: Use this JavaScript library to embed your app seamlessly in the Shopify admin.
Shopify Admin API Library for Ruby: A gem to simplify making Admin API calls in Ruby apps.
Shopify Admin API Library for Python: A Python library to simplify making Admin API calls in Python apps.
Shopify Admin API GraphiQL explorer: Use this interactive tool to build GraphQL queries using real Shopify API resources.
Shopify Storefront API GraphiQL explorer: Use this interactive tool to build GraphQL queries for Shopify’s Storefront API.

Theme Kit: Bootstrap themes and speed up your development process with our command line theme tool.
Liquid Cheat Sheet: Consult this interactive reference guide to the Liquid template language.
Liquid Code Examples: Build Shopify themes faster with this library of ready-to-use Liquid components.
Theme Inspector for Chrome: Profile and debug Liquid rendering performance with this Chrome Developer Tools plugin.

Polaris: Create great user experiences for your apps with Shopify’s design system and component library.