App

Shopware Apps are a different way to extend Shopware and can use an optional external App Server to provide additional functionality from your external backend. In this Blog post, I want to show you that a Shopware App with a Backend can be easy and also very affordable. The scary backend server Before the App system, the only way to extend Shopware was to build a plugin. Plugins are like Symfony Bundles with Shopware magic to offer them in Shopware Store. So we wrote code that runs directly in the customer’s web shop, and we can create additional tables to store our information. But we have to make sure that our code works on many setups and PHP versions. As the plugins can do like anything and this makes sandboxing difficult or build reliable that they don’t break each other. That was when the Shopware app system was born to offer a different extension concept. ...