Canvas lays out every page of a store in one visual workspace, where merchants can edit directly or describe what they want and have Sidekick build it. It’s launching alongside the online store editor and will roll out to merchants over the coming days. Many merchants rely on your app to power thei…

We do not want to meet Canvas! We are overwhelmed with all these changes! Enough! We do not have billion dollar market cap with 100s of developer to keep up!

@Soufiane_Ghzal Yes. For the short period where apps won’t be supported in Canvas, Sidekick is aware and handles this gracefully. [image]

Does that mean 99% of apps will break after canvas is released? How is the most popular app in Shopify supposed to display review cards and collect reviews if theme app extensions won’t work anymore? Judge.me Product Reviews App - Collect unlimited product reviews, star ratings, testimonials | Shop…

I think shopify is trying to please investors: rushing releases, skipping QA, forgetting common sense, forgetting good engineering, screwing companies who helped them to grow, and embracing mediocrity. That’s the beginning of the enshitification process. You have to think that this release not onl…

actually OP sent us an email 1 hour prior announcing Canvas to everybody else… :smiley: with “we understand this will be disruptive to you, so I wanted to reach out directly to start the conversation.” Conversation about what exactly?

Sidekick is down - canvas is broken. Small daily victory. :partying_face:

Hi, I’m trying to understand how Canvas themes work under the hood. Is Canvas basically a new editor on top of the same Liquid themes (JSON templates, sections, blocks, etc.), or are these themes built differently? Our app renders pages through an app proxy using the store’s theme code, so the resu…

@David_Arbias Canvas is still early. We’re sprinting to getting apps working in Canvas. That’s coming soon. Apps still work in the theme editor though so merchants who depend heavily on apps can still use the editor to customize their theme, and they can reach for Canvas to play around and experi…

I’ve never seen any store that doesn’t depend on apps, including mine, unless they are on hydrogen, which is also another part of Shopify that doesn’t work with theme app extensions. I’ll take this as an admission that we’ll have to prepare for an avalanche of support requests with a simple answer:…

Or maybe they just don’t care about apps working with Canvas long-term because they think merchants will be able to vibecode a lot of their functionality directly in Canvas, not just the theme layout. Obviously that doesn’t replace everything a mature app does at the moment, but i think that’s their…

Meet Canvas: a new way for merchants to design their online store with Sidekick.

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Sidekick is down - canvas is broken. Small daily victory.

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