Explore Shopify’s API reference and templating documentation. Shopify provides a range of software tools, app templates, example apps, and libraries to accelerate your development process.

Check out your options to see which one is right for you.

## Build apps

Extend Shopify’s core functionality by building apps that integrate into Shopify’s admin, online store, checkout and more.

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      GraphQL Admin API
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">The GraphQL API lets you build apps and integrations that extend and enhance the Shopify admin. It provides data on products, customers, orders, inventory, fulfillment, and more.</p>
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      Partner API
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">Scale your business with the  Partner API. When you use the Partner API, you can access the data found in your Partner Dashboard to automate front and back-office operations.</p>
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  <a class="resource-card" href="/docs/api/app-bridge" data-theme-mode="">
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      App Bridge
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">Use App Bridge to build embedded apps integrated with the Shopify admin.</p>
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      Remix app package
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">Build your app&#39;s web experiences with Remix, integrate with Shopify APIs, and embed into the Shopify admin.</p>
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  <a class="resource-card" href="/docs/api/payments-apps" data-theme-mode="">
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      Payments Apps API
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">Use the Payments Apps API to manage user account data including payments, refunds, and more.</p>
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      Shopify Function APIs
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">Use Shopify Function APIs to customize the backend logic that powers parts of Shopify.</p>
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      Webhooks
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">Use webhooks to keep apps in sync with Shopify data or to perform an action after a specific event occurs in a shop. Webhooks are a performant alternative to continuously polling APIs.</p>
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### Component libraries, references, and app extensions

Explore the available component libraries and references for building apps. Seamlessly add your app’s functionality to Shopify user interfaces using app extensions.

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      ShopifyQL
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">Use ShopifyQL to write analytical queries and find insights in user store data.</p>
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  <a class="resource-card" href="/docs/api/admin-extensions" data-theme-mode="">
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      Admin UI extensions
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">Use Admin UI extensions to create a deeper integration into the Shopify admin.</p>
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  <a class="resource-card" href="/docs/api/product-subscription-extensions" data-theme-mode="">
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      Product subscription app extensions
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">Use Product subscriptions extensions to help merchants manage selling plans in the Shopify admin.</p>
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  <a class="resource-card" href="/docs/api/checkout-extensions" data-theme-mode="">
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      Checkout app extensions
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">Use checkout app extensions to extend your app code into checkout and customize many aspects of the checkout experience.</p>
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  <a class="resource-card" href="/docs/api/pos-extensions" data-theme-mode="">
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      Shopify POS app extensions
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">Use Shopify POS app extensions to build custom POS UI Extensions, loyalty programs and discounts in Point of Sale shopping carts, as well as product recommendations.</p>
  </a>
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  <a class="resource-card" href="/docs/api/pixels" data-theme-mode="">
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      Web pixel app extensions
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">Use web pixel app extensions to collect behavioral data for marketing campaign optimization and analytics.</p>
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  <a class="resource-card" href="/docs/api/marketing-activities" data-theme-mode="">
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      Marketing activities app extensions
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">Use marketing activities app extensions to enable users to manage promotional campaigns and marketing automations from the Marketing page in the Shopify admin.</p>
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## Build custom storefronts

Build commerce experiences and branded custom storefronts using the Storefront API and Hydrogen.

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      Storefront API
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">Build custom shopping experiences for any platform. Render product and inventory details and initiate checkouts from any surface, such as web, mobile, gaming, and more.</p>
  </a>
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  <a class="resource-card" href="/docs/api/customer" data-theme-mode="">
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      Customer Account API
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">Securely manage and personalize customer data such as orders, payments, discounts, refunds, and more, with a single sign-on experience across multiple surfaces.</p>
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  <a class="resource-card" href="/docs/api/hydrogen" data-theme-mode="">
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      Hydrogen and Oxygen
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">Use Shopify’s recommended full-stack solution for building headless commerce experiences, with off-the-shelf components, hooks, utilities, and hosting built in.</p>
  </a>
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  <a class="resource-card" href="/docs/api/hydrogen-react" data-theme-mode="">
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      Hydrogen React
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">Explore an unopinionated and performant library of Shopify-specific React components, reusable functions, and utilities for interacting with the Storefront API.</p>
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  <a class="resource-card" href="/docs/api/storefront-web-components" data-theme-mode="">
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      Storefront Web Components
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">Storefront Web Components bring Shopify-powered commerce capabilities to any website. Display products, showcase collections, and offer a checkout, all with a few lines of embedded HTML.</p>
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## Build themes

Help users express their unique brand in their storefront by building a custom theme.

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      Liquid
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">Use Liquid to build or customize Shopify themes using the Liquid template language.</p>
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      Ajax API
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">Use the Ajax API to add dynamic elements to Shopify online stores with a lightweight JSON API for product data, recommendations, and shopping cart management.</p>
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  <a class="resource-card" href="/docs/api/ajax/section-rendering" data-theme-mode="">
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      Section Rendering API
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">Use the Section Rendering API to update page content by fetching only partial elements of a page instead of reloading it entirely.</p>
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  <a class="resource-card" href="/docs/api/customer-privacy" data-theme-mode="">
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    <h3 class="resource-card__title">
      Customer Privacy API
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">Use the Customer Privacy API to integrate buyer consent and opt-outs.</p>
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## API exploration

Start exploring Shopify's GraphQL Admin and Storefront APIs on a demo shop.

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      Admin API GraphiQL explorer
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">Use the interactive GraphiQL explorer for the Admin API.</p>
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  <a class="resource-card" href="/docs/api/usage/api-exploration/storefront-graphiql-explorer" data-theme-mode="">
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    <h3 class="resource-card__title">
      Storefront API GraphiQL explorer
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">Use the interactive GraphiQL explorer for the Storefront API.</p>
  </a>
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</div>


## AI-powered API assistance

Use AI tools to accelerate your API development workflow, with features like GraphQL generation, REST conversion, and contextual chat assistance. Trained on Shopify data for high accuracy.


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      Storefront MCP
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">Connect any AI assistant to real-time commerce data from Shopify stores with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Help customers search, ask, and buy in natural language..</p>
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      .dev Assistant
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    <p class="resource-card__description">Generate GraphQL operations, convert REST requests to GraphQL operations, and get interactive help with Shopify&#39;s AI-powered assistant.</p>
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  <a class="resource-card" href="https://github.com/Shopify/vscode-shopify-dev-assistant" data-theme-mode="">
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      Shopify Dev Assistant VS Code Extension
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    <p class="resource-card__description">Access AI-powered Shopify development help directly within Visual Studio Code, with automatic GraphQL query execution and GraphiQL integration.<br><br>Seamlessly integrates with your local development workflow.</p>
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  <a class="resource-card" href="https://github.com/Shopify/dev-mcp?tab=readme-ov-file#usage-with-cursor-or-claude-desktop" data-theme-mode="">
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      Shopify Dev MCP
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    <p class="resource-card__description">Transform your Shopify development workflow with AI-assisted tools that help you build with Shopify.<br><br>The MCP server integration brings intelligent automation to your favorite development environments, such as Cursor and Windsurf.</p>
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## API libraries

Shopify provides several official libraries for interacting with the [GraphQL Admin API](/docs/api/admin-graphql). Members of the Shopify developer community have created similar libraries covering other languages and technology stacks.

### Official Shopify Admin API libraries

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      Shopify/shopify-api-ruby
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">Shopify’s official Ruby gem for interacting with the Admin API</p>
  </a>
</div></p>

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  <a class="resource-card" href="https://github.com/Shopify/shopify_app" data-theme-mode="">
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    <h3 class="resource-card__title">
      Shopify/shopify_app
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">A Rails engine for building Shopify Apps</p>
  </a>
</div></p>

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  <a class="resource-card" href="https://github.com/Shopify/shopify-app-js/tree/main/packages/apps/shopify-api" data-theme-mode="">
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    <h3 class="resource-card__title">
      Shopify/shopify-api
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">Shopify’s official Node library for interacting with the Storefront and Admin APIs, handling OAuth, webhooks, and billing</p>
  </a>
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  <a class="resource-card" href="https://github.com/Shopify/shopify-app-js/tree/main/packages/api-clients/admin-api-client" data-theme-mode="">
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    <h3 class="resource-card__title">
      Shopify/admin-api-client
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">Shopify’s official lightweight Node library for interacting with the Admin API</p>
  </a>
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### Third-party Admin API libraries

> Tip:
> These libraries are created and maintained by members of the Shopify community. They aren’t official Shopify API libraries.

#### Node

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      Shopify-api-node
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">Node Shopify connector</p>
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  <a class="resource-card" href="https://github.com/christophergregory/shopify-node-api" data-theme-mode="">
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      shopify-node-api
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">OAuth2 Module for Shopify API</p>
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</div>


#### PHP

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    <h3 class="resource-card__title">
      php-shopify
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">PHP SDK for Shopify API</p>
  </a>
</div></p>

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  <a class="resource-card" href="https://github.com/robwittman/shopify-php-sdk" data-theme-mode="">
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    <h3 class="resource-card__title">
      shopify-php-sdk
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">PHP SDK for development with the Shopify API</p>
  </a>
</div></p>

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  <a class="resource-card" href="https://github.com/gnikyt/Basic-Shopify-API" data-theme-mode="">
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    <h3 class="resource-card__title">
      Basic-Shopify-API
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">A simple, tested, API wrapper for Shopify using Guzzle for GraphQL</p>
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#### Go

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    <h3 class="resource-card__title">
      go-shopify
    </h3>
    <p class="resource-card__description">A Go library that helps developers easily authenticate with and manage Shopify stores.</p>
  </a>
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#### .NET

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      ShopifySharp
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    <p class="resource-card__description">A .NET core library that helps developers easily authenticate with and manage Shopify stores.</p>
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## App templates

The following templates can help you start your Shopify app development.

When you scaffold an app using [Shopify CLI](/docs/apps/build/cli-for-apps), you can specify the template that you want to use with the `--flavor` flag. Enter `remix`, `node`, or `ruby` to use one of our app templates, or use a third-party template by providing a path to a GitHub repository for the template.

Shopify recommends using the Remix template for most apps.

You can also build an extension-only app, which is an app that contains no [app home](/docs/apps/build/admin), and uses the extension-only template. To create an extension-only app, select **Build an extension-only app** when you create your app. [Learn more about extension-only apps](/docs/apps/build/app-extensions/build-extension-only-app).

To learn more about building using the template, and deploying apps built using the template, review the readme in the template repository.

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      Remix app template
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    <p class="resource-card__description">An app template that uses Remix.</p>
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      Extension-only app template
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    <p class="resource-card__description">An app template for building extension-only apps.</p>
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      Express app template
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    <p class="resource-card__description">An app template that uses Express, Node.js, and React.</p>
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      Ruby app template
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    <p class="resource-card__description">An app template in Ruby and React.</p>
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      PHP app template
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    <p class="resource-card__description">An app template in PHP.</p>
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## Sample apps

The following examples can help you with your app.

- **[Shopify QR Code app](https://github.com/Shopify/shopify-app-examples/tree/main/qr-code/node)**: An example app based on the  Node app template. The app, inspired by [Shopcodes](https://apps.shopify.com/shopcodes), implements basic QR code generation for products and discounts.
- **[Storefront API apps](https://github.com/Shopify/storefront-api-examples)**: A series of example apps that demonstrate how to use the Storefront API. The examples are built and maintained by community members.