# Shopify Developer Community

Source: watchfor.tools, an independent directory for people who build Shopify apps. No paid placement, no affiliate links. Not affiliated with Shopify.
Canonical: https://watchfor.tools/communities/shopifydevcommunity

Summary: shopify's official forum for app and theme developers, where shopify staff answer api questions.
Shelf: For people who build on Shopify
Platform: Discourse forum run by Shopify
Price: Free
Entry: Open, with an account to post
Members: 19,571 accounts, 1,627 active in the last 30 days, by its own count
Started: June 2024
Run by: Shopify (https://watchfor.tools/owners/shopify)
Also from Shopify: In Stock (https://watchfor.tools/newsletters/instock), Shopify Community (https://watchfor.tools/communities/shopifycommunity), DotDev (https://watchfor.tools/events/dotdev), Shopify Partner Meetup Warsaw (https://watchfor.tools/events/shopify-partner-meetup-warsaw), Shopify Partner Town Hall (https://watchfor.tools/events/shopify-partner-town-hall), Shopify Unite (https://watchfor.tools/events/shopify-unite)
Who is in it: Developers building apps and themes on Shopify's APIs, with Shopify staff answering
What is discussed: graphql admin api, functions, extensions, webhooks, app store and billing api, built for shopify, developer changelog
Join: https://community.shopify.dev/
Entry last checked: 6 November 2026

## Description

Shopify's forum for developers, opened in June 2024. On 6 November 2026 it had 19,571 accounts, 1,627 of them active in the last 30 days, and 331 new topics that month. Boards cover the GraphQL Admin API, Functions, extensions, webhooks, the App Store and Billing API, Built for Shopify and the developer changelog. Shopify staff answer here, which makes it the closest thing to official support for an app's technical problems.

## Watch for

It is for technical questions about Shopify's APIs, and its guidelines remove promotional posts as spam. So it is a place to get answers and see what other developers run into, not to find customers. The talk is about building, not running an app business: pricing, marketing and growth are mostly absent. The figures are the forum software's own counts on the day it was read.