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Bring your own stack: Why developer platforms are going headless
As explained in this piece, "A headless CMS is a back-end only content management system (CMS) built from the ground up as a content repository that makes content accessible via a RESTful API or GraphQL API for display on any device." Shopify has leaned hard into GraphQL and APIs in general.
The goal, as Coates describes it, is to allow developers to bring their own stack to the front-end, but provide them with the benefits of Shopify's back-end, like edge data processing for improved speed at global scale. Shopify also offers a wealth of DevOps tooling and logistical support when it comes to international commerce.
We also discuss Liquid, the flexible template language Shopify uses for building web apps.
Our lifeboat badge of the week goes to chunhunghan for answering the question: How to customize the switch button in a flutter?