I have been tasked with develop a shopify hydrogen storefront app. We want to be able to create draft orders with this storefront (to generate quotes for customers).
In order to develop the storefront, I need a basic plan store which is $40/month because hydrogen is not able to installed on dev stores. Fine, that’s the cost of doing business.
But I also want to use the Admin API. I can’t use the admin api in a store that only has a basic plan. I need a plan that is $400/month (minimum). Our store has a Plus plan, but I can’t develop on the live store.
I can’t develop a hydrogen storefront in a dev store. I can’t test code for the admin api in a basic store (which is never intended to be a live store) without paying more money than management is likely to want to pay for a “development” store.
What’s the workaround here? I’m not deploying untested code.