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How To Write A Shopify App And Earn Money Part 1/2

Tom Smykowski
5 min readApr 6, 2022

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Today, I will show you how to create a Shopify app and earn money.

First, create some stuff. You can believe me, it will be better if you do it before you go into the console:

1. Shopify Partner Account And Test Store

Create Shopify Partner Account https://www.shopify.com/partners

Don’t create an app there. Just:

a) create the account
b) create a test store for testing of the app (!important!)

2. NgRok Account

Create a NgRok account. It is free for the use: https://ngrok.com/

a) Just create it.
b) It is used by the Shopify dev environment.
c) !Important! Activate the account with the link you will receive via e-mail

3. Console Fun

Before you will start to create an app, one important pro-tip:

  • If you want to create a public app, you have first to create custom app. It is a standard way of development encouraged by Shopify. When you will create a custom app, you can request privileges to API’s on your development store and finish development of your app. Next, you create a public app…

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Tom Smykowski
Tom Smykowski

Written by Tom Smykowski

🚀 Senior/Lead Frontend Engineer | Angular · Vue.js · React | Design Systems, UI/UX | Looking for a new project! 📩 contact@tomasz-smykowski.com

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