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Public roadmap · Updated October 2026

All five modules, live.
Next: build a real Shopify app.

168 lessons are live across all five modules. Next up is the Shopify App Development path: one real app, built end to end on your own development store, included in Pro and Founder. New lessons keep landing in the modules that are already out, so the list only grows.

The learnshopify.dev lesson interface: a task brief on the left, a Liquid editor in the middle, and a live Northwind Coffee Co storefront preview on the right.
Lessons live
168
Modules complete
5 / 5
New lessons added
Weekly

Next up · a path alongside the modules

A path is not a module. It sits beside the five: one real thing, built end to end on your own Shopify store, taken whenever you are ready rather than in curriculum order.

Path · Build one real app

Shopify App Development with AI

In development

59 lessons planned · first arcs in testing

You build a single real app, a bundle app, on your own Shopify development store: scaffold and install it, model bundle data as variant metafields, drive it from your app’s own Admin GraphQL routes, build the embedded admin UI, then write the cart transform Function that actually merges the bundle. Claude Code and Shopify’s Dev MCP are part of the method from Arc 2 on, including the lesson on catching the generated code that fails quietly.

Included in Pro and Founder at no extra cost.

Graded against your own store and your own local code, not a sandbox. Store checks run through the Admin GraphQL API; local checks run through our CLI on your machine.

The chapters

shippedin progressplanned

  1. Groundin progress1-7
  2. How an app is wiredin progress8-15
  3. The AI loopplanned16-19
  4. Model the bundlein progress20-24
  5. Admin GraphQL from your appplanned25-30
  6. The admin UIplanned31-36
  7. The cart transform Functionplanned37-45
  8. The storefront surfaceplanned46-49
  9. Lifecycleplanned50-53
  10. Launchplanned54-57
  11. Capstoneplanned58-59
Your own dev storeAdmin GraphQLCart transform FunctionApp Bridge + PolarisClaude Code + Dev MCP

The five modules

  1. 1

    Module 1 · Your first days

    Liquid Fundamentals

    Live

    20 lessons · all live

    Boot the CLI, render Shopify data into templates, branch on truthiness, iterate arrays, compose with assigns. The daily working vocabulary every senior Shopify dev types without thinking.

    Output & filtersTags & conditionalsmoney & date filtersHorizon file structure
    Start this module
  2. 2

    Module 2 · Your first real PR

    Shopify Object Model

    Live

    32 lessons · all live

    Read the data Shopify hands every template: product, variant, collection, cart, customer. Plus metafields, and the judgment call of when to define one instead of hard-coding a value.

    product & variantcollections & cartcustomer & metafieldssearch & pagination
    Start this module
  3. 3

    Module 3 · Architecture week

    Theme Architecture

    Live

    40 lessons · all live

    Sections, theme blocks, snippets, templates, schemas, app blocks, layouts, color schemes: the full Horizon architecture story. Includes the first AI-output review lessons.

    Sections & blockscontent_for & schemasSnippets & settingsApp blocks & locales
    Start this module
  4. 4

    Module 4 · Big feature ship

    Building Production Themes

    Live

    27 lessons · all live

    Cart drawer, collection filtering, predictive search, free-shipping bar, real interactive features built on a client-side Shopify storefront engine. The work agencies bill four figures for, ending in a real staging ship with the Shopify CLI.

    Cart drawer & AJAXCollection filteringPredictive searchSection Rendering API
    Start this module
  5. 5

    Module 5 · Apps & custom data

    Apps & Admin API

    Live

    49 lessons · all live

    When to reach for an app instead of a theme edit. The GraphQL Admin API, metaobjects, Shopify Functions, webhooks, checkout and customer-account UI extensions, and modeling custom data for B2B, markets and subscriptions.

    GraphQL Admin APIMetaobjectsShopify FunctionsCustom data modeling
    Start this module

Beyond the modules · being considered

Recipes library

Standalone how-to articles (free-shipping bar, review stars, cart-drawer animations), indexed for search and useful even if you never take a lesson.

AI mentor v2

Per-lesson tone tuning, multi-turn conversations, optional voice mode. The current mentor is a single-shot nudge; v2 is a real conversation partner during a lesson.

Team accounts

Agency / studio plan: seat-based pricing, an admin dashboard, per-team progress reporting. For agencies onboarding junior Shopify devs at scale.

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Have a request, a critique, or a "you should build X next"? Email hello@learnshopify.dev or DM me on LinkedIn. The roadmap is calibrated by what testers say they need most.