Incredibly out of date packages prohibiting the actual intent of this framework

[Michael-Gibbons]

React and NextJS are both a year out of date.

Polaris is 2 major versions out of date.

Custom session storage(koa-shopify-auth) has some serious flaws forcing developers to use some very hacky workarounds to validate sessions

Publishing of apps being denied because of graphql api deprecation notices (also caused by koa-shopify-auth)

react-apollo, the built in way to handle graphql requests is archived

No built in way to rate limit requests since again, react-apollo is deprecated and can't utilize @apollo/client Link functionality to append extensions to requests.

The blame isn't on the devs here but rather Shopify for not investing enough resources to support their own tools. But I ask what is the point of giving developers these tools if they don't work.

[limeforadime]

Agree completely. My Shopify app I'm working on is based on this tool's scaffolding, and I can't even begin to explain the myriad of hurdles I've had to go through to get basic things working to where I have them now. Often I had very few official articles to help me with what to do. Many of them were mysteriously taken down from the Shopify documentation so there are a lot of broken links around. Had to use the waybackmachine a few times.

But if nothing else, dealing with all the friction of out of date dependencies and doing various workarounds did force me to learn a bunch of things along the way! Lol so there's that.

[danielbixel]

totally agree

[g-costantini-it]

Bad developer experience.

A real nightmare.

[Michael-Gibbons]

Closing this issue in response to the new express build please see #725 for instructions to use the sample_app_updates branch