dignified-org/crane

Blazing fast static Shopify storefronts built and deployed in seconds

Crane

Crane was my (qw-in) submission to the Shopify App Challenge: Commerce and COVID-19 in May 2020. I put it together during weekends & evenings over the course of two weeks or so.

Summary of the submission

Crane was an alternative to Shopify's online sales channel (before Shopify's hydrogen or oxygen existed). It would connect to a GitHub repo of the merchants choice and manage deploying their Gatsby site to Vercel (I had plans to support other frameworks and clouds).

During development, I also built gatsby-source-shopify-incremental to support incremental data fetching and environment previews.

There is also a rudementary example Gatsby theme I forked from the Gatsby example.

Most of the submission has been lost to time and changes in Shopify's partner dashboard, but here is what I could dig up

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Screenshots:

Crane dashboard matches shopify admin look and feel

You can preview products with crane from the admin

Intuitive and powerful settings

Crane dashboard supports mobile

crane's Issues

Allow creating storefront token

Make sure login and install scopes match

Use login webhook check to verify offline token and reinstall

Setup uninstall webhook

Allow configuring gatsby preview URL