Can I run my frontend and backend on different hosts? (Shopify public app)

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Hi everyone!

I’m currently working on my first Shopify app. For my current setup, I have a Vuejs frontend hosted on Netlify, and a Nestjs backend hosted on Heroku. This is working fine for development, but I’m worried that Shopify might reject this setup upon the submission of my application. Here’s the current flow –

  1. User clicks install on the app store
  2. User is sent to https://example-server.com/auth then is redirected back to their Shopify admin to confirm install
  3. Once auth is successful, server redirects the user to https://example-client.com/ (the embedded app)

My application URL is:
https://example-server.com/auth

My whitelisted redirection URLs are:
https://example-server.com/auth/callback
https://example-client.com/

Does this setup pass submission guidelines? If not, could you please elaborate? :slightly_smiling_face:

Thanks!

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Sounds like the answer is no: https://community.shopify.com/topic/593873