Ok everybody,
This just in...so the deprecated call in question (in my case) was this:
Shopify.API.remoteRedirect
In our case, we were still using that in a couple of EJS routes for pages that are linked to from outside the main (React + Express) app (ie through our App Extensions for admin and bulk admin links). A illustrate a more complete example for you, were using a snippet of code modeled to us from back in the EASDK days when we first wrote the app:
// Redirect to Orders page in Shopify Admin
document.getElementById('back-to-orders').onclick = function() {
if (window.top == window.self) {
// If the current window is the 'parent', change the URL by setting location.href
window.top.location.href = '<%- shopifyUrl %>/admin/orders';
} else {
// If the current window is the 'child', change the parent's URL with postMessage
message = JSON.stringify({
message: 'Shopify.API.remoteRedirect',
data: { location: '<%- shopifyUrl %>/admin/orders' }
});
window.parent.postMessage(message, '<%- shopifyUrl %>');
}
};
The Shopify support specialist informed us that this is deprecated and using it makes it look like:
"This call is coming from an old shopify-app gem or koa-shopify-auth library for Node apps. Please update the library appropriate to your app and this will fix the issue and your app won't be removed for this reason."
So if you are currently using this old method for detecting being inside the Shopify embedded app iframe, be sure to stop using it...if you don't want to be de-listed from the app store. Luckily for us, that's not an important part of our app, simply a convenience feature. I believe it will function just fine without the postMessage call in any case.
Good luck to all and I hope this helps.
