🍔🧠 How Shopify Handles 67M Daily Views (Only 1 Framework)

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Building a Faster and AI-Ready Shopify Admin 🛒

Shopify completely rebuilt their Admin interface that serves 67M daily pageviews, making it 30% faster while preparing for AI capabilities. This massive undertaking involved transforming a TypeScript codebase with 3M+ lines of code while keeping 101 teams shipping features continuously.

The challenge: Manage a massive-scale application where 350 PRs merge daily while maintaining consistency, performance, and developer productivity.

Implementation highlights:

• Route manifests: Created a single source of truth for 1,017 routes with TypeScript files containing metadata

• Remix loaders: Parallelized data fetching with component loading to eliminate waterfalls

• Intelligent prefetching: Preloads commonly accessed routes during idle browser time

• Standardized loading: Implemented consistent loading patterns across all routes

• AI-ready architecture: Added Remix actions and zod schemas for Sidekick AI integration

Results and learnings:

• 30% faster page loads with improved perceived performance

• Simplified development through standardized patterns and route management

• Enhanced AI capabilities for automated task completion via Sidekick

Great architecture isn't just about clean code—it's about empowering users. Shopify's rebuild shows how embracing web standards and thoughtful design can transform a complex system into something both powerful and maintainable.

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This week’s coding challenge:

This week’s tip:

Use double exclamation marks !!) in bash to refer to the last command, combined with specific modifiers for quick command modifications without retyping. This powerful history expansion syntax allows you to efficiently reuse and modify previous commands using various modifiers like :s/old/new/ for substitution or :h for head path components.

Wen?

• Long path operations: Quickly modify complex file operations without retyping paths.

• Batch processing: Iterate through similar commands with minor modifications.

• Quick fixes: Correct typos or change commands while preserving complex arguments.

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