Will Shopify Functions get easier to use before launch?

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I have tiered pricing implemented as a Shopify Script - this isn’t ideal as I can only access the price and compare_at_price of the variant and it won’t apply to draft orders.

I spent some time looking at Shopify Functions this morning to see if they would be a better mechanism to implement our tiering - and while I’m sure they would offer the functionality we don’t currently have the experience of setting up and using them is a total trainwreck, it is massively more complicated than it needs to be for many simple usecases.

I understand that to expose the full guts of Shopify there is complexity, but replacing Shopify Scripts with this is like swapping out a bike for the Space Shuttle. I just wanted to write a ~50 line Javascript function to test the functionality out and the Shopify CLI tool created a 40,000 file directory containing toml, typescript, yaml, Docker stuff, git related files, graphql, etc - it was insane.

Please tell me that there will be a sane way to work with this for simpler use cases…?

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Hi @lowfatcode – Several function APIs are already “launched” but we are always looking to simplify the DX. Based on your comments, I take it the main complexity you are referring to is the boilerplate that comes with creating an app, before you have created the function extension?

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Yes, primarily! I’m not sure why I’d want or need all of that just to provide a few lines of (ideally) Javascript that does some custom processing to prices.