Admin UI extension builds successfully, but shopify app dev preview fails to start

I got this error today as well when i made a bundle extension for my app. My solution was to fix the locale files of the liquid content as well as closing {% tagName %} tags properly.

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I had this done by Claude, but a free solution would be GitHub’s Copilot.

Try this command that worked for me:

My Claude Code told me to run the command:
shopify app dev --verbose 2>&1 | grep -A 20 "graphql.json"
Then it spitted out the exact error that was crashing it:
❌ Error└ [blocks/bundle.liquid] Invalid tag 'schema': unknown key 'presets'

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