---
title: App Home target
description: >-
  The admin.app.home.render target renders your app's home landing page as a
  Preact-based UI extension module inside the Shopify admin.
api_version: 2026-07-rc
source_url:
  html: 'https://shopify.dev/docs/api/app-home-ui-extension/latest/targets'
  md: 'https://shopify.dev/docs/api/app-home-ui-extension/latest/targets.md'
api_name: app-home-ui-extension
---

# App Home target

App Home UI extensions have a single target, `admin.app.home.render`, that renders in the main App Home area of Shopify admin. Extensions at this target render as the full page of the app, not as an extension at a specific resource detail page or action menu.

This target renders through the same web component runtime as the other [Admin UI extension](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-extensions) targets, so you can ship your app's main landing page in the same bundle as its other extensions.

### Use cases

* **Primary app experience:** Render the main landing page merchants see when they open your app, without hosting a separate iframe-based web app.
* **Navigation hub:** Link merchants to the rest of your app's workflows, with deep links and contextual entry points.
* **Onboarding:** Guide first-time merchants through setup steps for your app's extensions.

![App Home overview](https://shopify.dev/assets/assets/images/api/app_home_ui_extensions/target_overview-CIu9deaR.png)

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## App home render target

`admin.app.home.render`

Renders your app's home landing page as a UI extension module. Merchants reach this surface by opening your app from the Shopify admin navigation. Use this target to build the primary entry point for your app without hosting a separate iframe-based web app.

Extensions at this target can access the core capabilities of the Shopify admin through the [Standard API](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/app-home-ui-extension/latest/target-apis/core-apis/standard-api), including authentication and GraphQL Admin API access.

Examples

### Examples

* ####

  ##### Description

  Render a simple App Home landing page with a heading and a button that navigates to another page in the app. This example shows the minimal structure for an \`admin.app.home.render\` extension using Preact and Polaris web components.

  ##### jsx

  ```jsx
  import '@shopify/ui-extensions/preact';
  import {render} from 'preact';

  export default function extension() {
    render(<Extension />, document.body);
  }

  function Extension() {
    return (
      <s-page heading="Welcome to My App">
        <s-section heading="Getting started">
          <s-paragraph>
            Use this page as the landing experience for merchants opening your app.
          </s-paragraph>
          <s-button href="/settings">
            Open settings
          </s-button>
        </s-section>
      </s-page>
    );
  }
  ```

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## Best practices

* **Load quickly:** App Home is the first thing merchants see when they open your app. Defer non-critical data fetching until after the initial render, and show loading states for asynchronous data.
* **Link into your app:** Use relative paths or the `app:` protocol on links and buttons to deep-link into other pages of your app from the landing page, so merchants can jump straight into common workflows.

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