Shopify provides a huzzle-free online shop cloud hosting experience to its customers, but developing Shopify Apps is a frustrating process. Documentation is so-so, TypeScript support is poor. Also, free Heroku plans (formerly - maybe still - recomended) are gone, and Shopify's standard template for Node.JS/React based apps is not suitable to be run on Vercel or any serverless provider, to my knowledge.
I wanted to see if people are interested in a hosting as a service platform like Vercel, but specialized in Shopify Apps. So I created this little landing page with big help of AI. (The logo / mascot, "learn" section, dark mode colors...)
I did it with Next.JS to get some experience with it, since I've been using React for many years now, but always with a C# backend.
The plan was to use Vercel Analytics for a pure server-side tracking of page views, hence avoiding Cookie Laws, and invest some bucks in Google Ads to see how people would react. Learning: Google doesn't like it when you offer something you don't have. They blocked me.
See the landing page here: https://www.kickify.io/
First, run the development server:
npm run dev
# or
yarn devOpen http://localhost:3000 with your browser to see the result.
You can start editing the page by modifying pages/index.tsx. The page auto-updates as you edit the file.
API routes can be accessed on http://localhost:3000/api/hello. This endpoint can be edited in pages/api/hello.ts.
The pages/api directory is mapped to /api/*. Files in this directory are treated as API routes instead of React pages.