cli

Get started

The Shopify CLI is the tool developers use to build apps and storefronts for the Shopify platform. This wiki contains documentation that’s useful for contributors of the project.

Requirements

If you’d like to contribute to this project, the following system dependencies need to be present in the environment.

• Node (v20.10 or higher)
• PNPM (v10)

Set up

Once you have the necessary system dependencies, you can go through the steps below to have your environment setup to work with the project:

1. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/Shopify/cli.git.
2. Install dependencies: pnpm install

Run against a local project

You can run the CLIs through the following package.json scripts:

• pnpm shopify: Builds and runs the Shopify CLI.
• pnpm create-app: Builds and runs the create-app CLI.

All commands support the --path argument, so you can run any command pointing to your app. For example, pnpm shopify app build --path /path/to/project

Create a new app from scratch

If you want to quickly test creating an app from scratch, you can run bin/create-test-app.js. It will:

• create a new app on your Desktop
• create a UI extension (product subscription)
• create a theme app extension
• create a function (product discount in TypeScript)

You can also pass these optional flags:

• -e <extensions> to choose which extensions you want (ui, theme, or function)
• --deploy to deploy your app to Shopify
• --cleanup to remove the app directory afterwards

If you want to interact with it, you can cd into the directory and run the CLI through the scripts in the package.json:

Command	PNPM
shopify	pnpm shopify
build	pnpm build
dev	pnpm dev
test	pnpm test
generate	pnpm generate

Create a new theme from scratch

If you want to quickly test creating a theme from scratch, you can run bin/create-test-theme.js -s YOUR_STORE. It will:

• create a new theme on your Desktop
• start the development server on http://localhost:9292
• push the theme to your store
• list all the available themes

You can also pass these optional flags:

• --cleanup to remove the theme directory afterwards

More automation

Besides the scripts for building and running the CLIs, there are others that might come handy when adding code to the project:

• pnpm test: Runs the tests of all the packages.
• pnpm lint: Runs ESLint and Prettier checks for all the packages.
• pnpm lint:fix: Runs ESLint and Prettier checks for all the packages and fixes the fixable issues.
• pnpm type-check: Type-checks all the packagesusing the Typescript tsc tool.
• pnpm clean: Removes the dist directory from all the packages.

All the packages in the repository contain the above scripts so they can be executed too for an individual package.

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