From Ruby to Node: Overhauling Shopify’s CLI for a Better Developer Experience - Shopify
In this blog post, Pedro explains why we rewrote Shopify CLI into Node instead of Ruby, the tradeoffs that came with the decision, the principles we embraced in this new iteration, and the challenges and ideas ahead of us to explore.
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