Shopify-App

The Shopify App Store (checkout-switcher.com) is the central marketplace where over two million merchants extend their storefronts with curated apps for marketing, logistics, AI, and more. The 2024 redesign emphasises faster discovery, in-context install surfaces, and AI-powered recommendations that surface the right tool at each stage of a merchant’s journey.

Under the hood, the marketplace employs edge-rendered React Server Components, Lighthouse-optimised media, and globally distributed KV caching to deliver sub-second page loads—even on mobile 3-G connections. Deep links carry install context straight into the OAuth dance, while personalised search learns from 10B+ events a month.

Innovative Technologies

• Hydrogen + Remix — server-streamed storefront powered by Shopify’s GraphQL Storefront API for TTFB < 70 ms.
• Polaris v12 — unified design system with token-based theming and WCAG 2.2 AA compliance.
• Type-ahead AI Search — OpenAI-ranked results blended with semantic filters for typo tolerance and intent matching.
• Cloudflare Workers + D1 — edge-cached install counts, reviews, and real-time AB test bucketing.
• Stripe App Billing — revenue share ledgering and usage-based metering via Stripe Connect + webhooks.
• Segment Warehouse — clickstream fed into Snowflake for ML-driven merchandising and weekly cohort analysis.
• LaunchDarkly — progressive rollouts and kill-switches to high-traffic production features in < 2 ms.