[golondon]

It increasingly feels like the decisions taken and the work done at Shopify API / Libraries / CLIs / Docs etc are done for promos, rather than thinking about DevEx of people who try to build reliable product on their platform.

I notice this pattern of shoving nodejs / js, especially react through people's throat for the apps developed on the platform. Polaris, Session tokens and all the boilerplate apps the CLI generates are great examples of that.

I would rather having Polaris as CSS framework + some JS bits in vanilla-JS, Auth + Session tokens as just as a small JS library. But instead I am forced to use React. I know Polaris is also available as CSS only but that's almost impossible to use as it's not designed for human use really. Or Bridge exists as a library but for many cases it's just way too bloated and documentation for non-react version of those things are not so good.