Core Issue: Uninstalled Shopify apps often leave behind code snippets in theme files, significantly slowing site performance (TTFB).
Performance Impact:
Cleanup Methods Discussed:
grep -r to search for old app names/snippetsNative Alternatives Being Explored:
Resources Shared:
Participants are actively testing and planning to share working code examples for these app-free alternatives.
So Horizon wipes out half our old apps, but those sneaky snippets are still camping in theme files and dragging down TTFB. Anyone else finding orphaned Liquid snippets from uninstalled apps? What’s your cleanup workflow: Theme Check, Theme Inspector, or brute-force grep? I’m midway through the purge.
curious what clean up recipes are working for you.
Just did a full code audit and found four old app snippets still inflating theme.liquid.
Store speed jumped -TTFB down from 680ms to 520ms after purge.
Next i’m exploring if I can replace the following
I remember some apps contain the guideline of clearing codes left, apart from what you said here, you can also choose to contact the app support team or check their articles to know the way of clearing entirely.
@Donahue yes. guides help, but some app teams aren’t supporting them anymore. And it takes an eternity to get a reply.
So I’m cooking up native swaps for my client stores; loyalty points using Flow + customer metafields, and a wishlist powered by localStorage that syncs on login.
Tests look solid so far; I’ll drop it here with code so everyone can ditch those apps safe.
Fantastic! It is happy to know you make such contributions to your client stores and I can’t wait seeing your shared code in the future. 
@Donahue just found out @websensepro already did it. the solution is pretty neat!
Awesome! I can’t wait to watch it for further exploring. Thank you for sharing very much 