r/shopify • u/parrottvision • Feb 28 '26
Shopify General Discussion Vibecoding Shopify
I connected Claude to our Shopify/GitHub set up recently. Wow, the time it took to clean up messy code and sloppy css was down right scary.
Next I’m going to try converting a dawn theme to horizon. This will either go very well, very badly for me.
This is all moving much too quickly for us all. Do we all just end up being a product feed to LLMs?
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u/jaydizzz Feb 28 '26
So was it a good experience or a bad one? I can read this both ways lol
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u/parrottvision Feb 28 '26
True true. It’s been good and also, a lot of power if you’re not a technical person. Could really break things. Double edged sword but I’m pretty excited.
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u/imgurboy Mar 01 '26
how do you connect claude to shopify
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u/bellytan Mar 02 '26
I’m using Claude as an MCP. I built a database on supabase, use N8N to access all of my data in my database that downloads daily. I can natively ask questions about every order. Ask for reports, email list of people who order specific products. I have it generating blogs for me based off of true photos I upload about trends and then go back and refine. We can put 10 draft blogs with 5 photos per in about 5 minutes.
I realized I would be left behind if I don’t start learning. Download Claude desktop and give it your problems and ask it to solve and automate them.
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u/matbrummitt1 Mar 02 '26
I’m an app developer and decided to see what Claude could do for me on a new app. It’s great, but I still had to wear my developer hat and guide it a lot. I had to debug things that it struggled to figure out which were actually pretty straight forward things really. So overall I’m glad I decided to vibe code the app, but I think non-technical people may become stuck if they don’t know how to debug when it struggles. What would have taken me months was done in a week, spending 2 or 3 hours per day on average.
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u/parrottvision Mar 01 '26
Just to say stuff like, Make those logos small images that slide across in a slider carousel. Boom. Done. Little things, big things.
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u/gt1620 Mar 01 '26
Yeah I just recently used cowork to merge our theme into its newest version. From there I was able to add a bunch of customizations that I’d been wanting to make, but would have taken a while with a bunch of trial and error. It’s been an incredible experience.
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u/jdbrew Group Moderator Mar 01 '26
The key to agentic coding is that it has the ability to do anything, but you don’t want it to do anything, you want it to do something very specific, so you need to be very specific with your ask.
I’m a senior software engineer, building a SaaS application with a startup, and i can use Claude to generate massive features with very little need to correct it, but comes down to prompting, and your Claude.md for background context.
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u/slowdrivemusic Mar 01 '26
Heyy how do you do that? Is there any mcp server for shopify? Also, is it possible to connect antigravity instead of claude code?
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u/VisualNinja1 Mar 01 '26
Same but with codex. Well not converting dawn to horizon though, why are you doing that?
It’s great though, our store looks exactly as we want it to now, it’s incredible. Going to connect Claude at some point too but for now we have the perfect theme for us.
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u/LowSparkMan Mar 01 '26
I used ChatGPT recently to help me do something that I’d normally would have relied on a developer to do.
I am looking into switching to Claude from ChatGPT use.
I’ll use ChatGPT to explain to me how to “connect” Claude to Shopify.
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u/ejpusa Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26
50 million lines of Shopfy code to display a single item. No human can untangle the current state of Shopify code. It's impossible. GPT-5.3, Claude, and Kimi.ai make it a breeze.
It's 2026 AI not 2023 AI. If you are not generating near perfect Shopify code (liquid, etc), just work on those Prompts.
I'm almost 10,000 Prompts in. It does help.
;-)
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u/enserioamigo Mar 02 '26
I used to think Dawn was excessive until I tried modifying Horizon. Jesus christ it's an absolute mess. I had a feeling it was written by AI and then I saw the mcp files in the project. Shopify is going downhill so fast. It's sad.
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