The Joy of Metaobjects: Custom CMS

The Joy of Metaobjects: Custom CMS

Welcome to The Joy of Metaobjects — a series of recipes for Shopify custom data that our team has cooked up to inspire you on your own ecommerce journey. Today, we'll be using a metaobject definition to prepare a custom CMS experience on your store that makes page setup easy for the entire team.

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Things We Learned: Seventh Edition

Things We Learned: Seventh Edition

And just like that, we're well into 2023. We've got ambitious plans for the year, and the learning continues. Check out the latest tips and tricks we've found useful in this new TIL round-up from the KD team.

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Five Commerce Trends to Watch in 2023

Five Commerce Trends to Watch in 2023

The 2023 Commerce Trends report from Shopify details why the “unexpected in the new normal,” how inflation and other economic factors might affect the year ahead, and what growing expectations from consumers means for strategic planning.

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Giving Tuesday | Book Giveaway

Giving Tuesday | Book Giveaway

We have a gift (actually 10 gifts) to give away for Giving Tuesday! We’re giving away 10 copies of Ayush Newatia's book: The Rails and Hotwire Codex: Building an app for web, iOS, and android. If you're a junior or aspiring developer (or know someone who is), enter to win this awesome resource.

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Things We Learned: Fifth Edition

Things We Learned: Fifth Edition

There have been many musings and learnings since our last TIL update. Scroll on for the latest edition of Things We Learned from the KD team including info on the neat new Turbo release, more things Ruby, and what the Mad Max: Fury Road movie has to do with site design.

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Things We Learned: Fourth Edition

Things We Learned: Fourth Edition

Below is the latest round-up from the KD TIL (today I learned) Slack channel! Happy Labor Day to those in the U.S., and happy back to school for the parents out there. Adam dropped info on how you can

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Things We Learned: Third Edition

Things We Learned: Third Edition

It’s been awhile! But we’re back with the latest from KD’s Slack: Things We Learned. We've been dropping new and/or interesting links in our #til Slack channel, so we thought it'd be nice to collect them in a post. 

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Things We Learned: Second Edition

Things We Learned: Second Edition

Back again with the latest from KD Squad's Slack: Things We Learned. We've been dropping new and/or interesting links in our #til Slack channel, so we thought it'd be nice to collect them in a post and send out a monthly summary.

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Leaning to code (credit Nicole De Khors).

Things We Learned: First Edition

We're starting a new series direct from the KD Squad's Slack: Things We Learned. We've been dropping new and/or interesting links in our #til Slack channel, so we thought it'd be nice to collect them in a post.

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Customize Stimulus Attributes, Avoid Conflicts

Customize Stimulus Attributes, Avoid Conflicts

Stimulus is all about giving you front-end functionality with minimal JavaScript fuss and weight, but in certain cases, its data attributes can run into conflict with other libraries. I've recently made a pull request to add this to their docs, but for anyone else who's encountered this conflict, a little reconfiguration of the library's schema can keep your Stimulus implementation conflict-free.

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Being RESTful about your routes

Being RESTful about your routes

In this post, we'll show you how to keep your Rails application maintainable for the long run by following the REST design principles. There’s no need to make Rails routes difficult — REST easy!

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A Newcomer’s Perspective on Rails

A Newcomer’s Perspective on Rails

Understanding the full stack of modern day cloud applications is becoming more and more challenging. From a newcomer’s perspective I’d like to share a few ways Rails can boost productivity and ease some of the challenges of being a full stack engineer.

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Ecommerce accounting in a digital world

Ecommerce accounting in a digital world

Understanding your business financially becomes more important than ever in a changing ecommerce environment. The one constant in your business should be your financial reporting accuracy and timeliness. You need the ability to pivot strategically as conditions change and that starts with knowing your financial data. A few hot topics in ecommerce accounting today are:

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Gifts So They Keep On Giving

While we're showing friends and family we care at a distance, it's a good time for those selling gifts online to shine. Here are some of our tips for tuning up the user experience when shipping to multiple recipients in a single order.

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