Irish Soda Bread and Shipping Web Apps with Kelly Vaughn on Web Rush #130

Kelly Vaughn talks with us about developing apps and themes for Shopify clients at her company, The Taproom. Advice for launching ecommerce stores, what the tech stack is like for developing on Shopify, where Node fits with Shopify, handling data when developing a Shopify theme for a customer, and using log managers.

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const podcast = { 
  episode: 130,
  title: 'Irish Soda Bread and Shipping Web Apps',
  topics: [ 
    'shopify', 'Node', 'ecommerce'
  ],
  guest: 'Kelly Vaughn'
  hosts: [
    'John Papa', 'Ward Bell', 'Dan Wahlin', 'Craig Shoemaker'
  ]
};

Recording date: 03/18/2021

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Kelly Vaughn @Kvlly

Brought to you by

• AG Grid

• IdeaBlade

Resources:

• Ladybug Podcast
• Commerce Tea
• Kelly Vaughn Website
• The Taproom
• Emma Bostian on Twitter
• Ali Spittel
• Sidney Buckner
• Rhian Beutler
• Irish Soda Bread Recipe
• Newly Practicing Mortician aka npm
• What are web hooks?
• Heroku
• Vue.js
• React.js
• Nodejs
• Koa
• Express
• Heroku Papertrail
• Shopify API
• Shopify Storefront API
• “Polaris” - react components for Shopify
• Kelly’s advice on pushing to production on Friday
• Setting Up a Local Shopify Theme Development Environment
• Ten Interesting Facts About the Dentist’s Drill
• Sequel Pro
• MySQL database
• Paper Trail log management
• At IdeaBlade we use Sentry with most of our clients
• New Relic logging
• Log Rocket for logging
• App Dynamics logging
• KPIs
• Self-decapitating Sea Slugs
• Jameson Cold Brew Recipes

Timejumps

• 01:22:00 Deploying regularly
• 02:52:00 Guest introduction
• 04:16:14 What's Irish soda bread?
• 08:05:01 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 09:12:23 Naming The Taproom
• 11:36:21 Running The Taproom
• 13:54:12 Advice for launching ecommerce stores
• 16:35:23 What is the stack like for developing Shopify themes or apps?
• 19:21:12 How does Node fit in?
• 21:03:00 What's your cycle time for pushing to production?
• 23:24:12 How do you handle Shopify data?
• 29:52:07 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
• 30:53:12 Working with small data vs the world's data
• 36:25:22 How do you use log managers in development?
• 42:30:19 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.