4 Shopify API & Headless Gotchas Every Developer Hits (And How to Fix Them)

When you first start building a custom Shopify app or a headless Next.js storefront, the ecosystem feels like magic. Then you deploy to production, real customers start checking out, and your webhooks start silently failing at 2:00 AM. Unlike standard web apps, e-commerce development has zero room for unhandled exceptions—a broken API call literally means lost revenue. Before you push your next Shopify integration, make sure you aren't falling into these 4 developer traps: 1. Ignoring Webhook Id