Eytan Seidman, VP of Product at Shopify, returns to the Liquid Weekly Podcast for a special Spring '26 Editions walkthrough with Karl and Taylor.
It is a full tour of what is dropping for developers: static app home extensions, the App Events API, AI Kit, Sidekick app extensions going GA, the ongoing Dev Dashboard overhaul, a rebuilt logging experience, UCP and agentic commerce, next-gen events replacing webhooks, and the shift from Managed Pricing to Shopify App Pricing. Basically a whole episode of changelog.
A must-listen for app developers, agencies, and anyone building on the Shopify platform.
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(02:17) Static app home extensions: building apps fully on Shopify
(08:08) App Events API: observability and monitoring in Dev Dash
(13:03) AI Kit: store auth, store execute, and how it differs from MCP
(17:54) Sidekick app extensions GA: data and app action extensions
(25:21) Dev Dashboard overhaul: store and team management
(31:34) Logging overhaul: API requests, filtering, and unified logs
(35:40) Catalog improvements and the UCP CLI
(38:16) Building carts across merchants with UCP
(40:35) Agent to agent purchasing and accountability
(44:04) Next-gen events: rebuilding webhooks
(52:08) Shopify App Pricing: usage-based pricing and meters
(58:27) Closing: what Eytan is most excited for devs to try
(1:00:50) Picks of the Week
Picks of the Week
Taylor: A MagSafe power bank. After his recording died in the fourth inning of his daughter's softball game, he picked one up so he can hot-swap batteries mid-game and record full-length games start to finish. https://amzn.to/4vXCZAj
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