#Install connex for shopify on a mac install
#Install connex for shopify on a mac update

Generated when you set up the app and required to run and install the app When the app is initalised it checks where _ENV is set to production or not and will load the relevant configurations.Дefault configuration located in config/index.js variables are: This is where youвЂ™ll place any configuration variables youвЂ™ll need or any references youвЂ™ll need to environment variables later on. production.js - Production only configuration variables.index.js - Global configuration variables.development.js - Development only configuration variables.Inside the config/ directory there are three files You should now be able to install your app if you visit the installation url.

Okay now lets get our app running! npm start If you want to use port other than 7777 you can add that now too. It should look like this: SHOPIFY_API_KEY= xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx SHOPIFY_SHARED_SECRET= xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx envДЄnd add the API credentials we created earlier in the Shopify Partner Dashboard. Now create a new file in your app root called. gitignore because we will be storing sensitive information in this file such as our API secret. Go into config/development.js and change the APP_URI to the your ngrok forwarding address. index.js is the global variables with the current environment. Production refers to the live environment and development is the local. In the config directory we store the variables for the different environments. If you havenвЂ™t done so already fork and clone the repositoryДЄnd install all the required Node packages npm install

#Install connex for shopify on a mac update

To avoid OAuth failures, update your app settings in the Partner Dashboard whenever you restart ngrok. Your ngrok forwarding address changes every time that you restart ngrok (unless you have a paid plan). If the app were running you could now visit this url in your browser to view the app. This is the url that will be used for reference in the rest of this tutorial. In this case the Ngrok forwarding address is: If all went well you will see a response like thisД«ut the localhost port will be 7777 instead. Then run ngrok on port 7777 ngrok http 7777 Ngrok is a tunneling service which will allow you to safely expose your local app to the internet so that it can now communicate with Shopify.ДЄssuming you downloaded it to your downloads folder unzip ngrok unzip Downloads/ngrok.zip cd Downloads Your app will be receiving requests from Shopify, but you want to be able to develop your app locally.