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Shopify App CLI Development Guide

This wiki is a way to describe the principles we adhered to when designing it and guides to enable you to extend the CLI in a straightforward way. There are both resources on how to get started as well as resources on how to design for the CLI.

• Principles for writing a CLI application
• Guidelines for UX
  • Commands
  • Input, output and errors
  • Help and documentation for end users
  • Resources
• Using a development instance and switching between development and production
• Starting a new project type
  • Commands and subcommands
  • Tasks
  • Forms
  • Feature Sets
  • Core APIs
• Metrics
• Tests