“Not a CRUD app” isn’t a design decision, it’s just that storefront is almost entirely read-only, and the views are merchant-provided Liquid code. Most of a shop's data can be accessed on any page; data dependencies are in large part defined by the view, not the controller.
Oh I Know. As a Rails developer for 10 years, I'm always interested what patterns are developed when straying away from what the original guts of Rails.
Shopify's storefront is based around a liquid renderer instance. If you look up how objects are added to the liquid context that is pretty similar to the overall pattern (or at least was back when I worked there, hi pushrax :)
Yep, the main idea is to set up the liquid interpreter with the right variables/methods and the right liquid templates, and evaluate the result. There’s a lot of code that runs around that, but the path-specific code is quite small.
