Hello, I was wondering if there was a way to disable the shopify store front-end. I am currently using Shopify GraphQL API for a headless implementation with a react based front-end. I want to know If I can can link only the API (without Shopify’s native front-end) to a sub.domain. Does anyone know…

you can lock use of password protected

Yes absolutely you can use a subdomain for your headless site. You can also remove the Online Store channel by going to “manage channels” if you want to, but often folks redirect from it (if you ever had it published this can help with SEO/404s)

@vix can you please provide the article link here. or list of the steps

https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-sales-channels#remove-an-online-sales-channel-from-your-shopify-admin

Ywtstewart You can use Axios, JQuery Ajax or the Javascript Fetch API to get data from a store. If you’re using npm and want to use JQuery do npm i jquery first. For example if the store url is myawesome-widgets.myshopify.com use: $.ajax({ url: 'https://myawesome-widgets.myshopify.com/api/…

@vix I am currently using using Cloudflare to handle DNS. So ideally I would like like to redirect the root of my subdomain ( shop.xxxx.com ) to the homepage ( xxxx.com/ ) and XXXX to Shopify admin. Can I do this with cloudflare?

You cannot put Cloudflare in front as Shopify is already using Cloudflare. We have a headless storefront and some experience with this setup. I would advise against disabling the online shop sales channels as too much of the Shopify ecosystem relies on it’s existence. So you’re better off having a …

Thanks for sharing this - really useful as it’s my first time setting up a headless Angular store. Does this mean that you weren’t able to integrate with Facebook and Google shopping with this set up?

There’s a special theme built for this purpose.

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Maybe it is possible.

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