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Polaris is the design system for the Shopify admin. Recommended resources to get started: Design resources Shopify provides Figma community resources for Polaris components, styles, and icons. If you are new to Figma, check out our onboarding guide, or open Figma and start designing with the Polaris: Component UI kit Style Library Icon Library Development resources The Shopify/polaris GitHub repo is an open-source monorepo made up of NPM packages, VS Code extensions, and this website. To get started, learn how to install and use the Polaris: React components Design tokens VS Code extension Tutorials Build a Shopify app In this tutorial, you’ll create an app that merchants can access in the Shopify admin. You’ll use an app initialization command that generates starter code for building your app, and sets up your development environment so that you can work with your app using Shopify CLI. Your app will use Polaris and App Bridge while following the App Design Guidelines. Expand your knowledge Polaris provides foundational design guidance for creating good merchant experiences. Here are some recommended resources to: Experience values Design guidelines Content fundamentals
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Utilities Move: lets you animate all the things, from transitions to sources in a scene, to filters and effects. IMO, this is the GOAT of plugins, but is closely followed by… Advanced Scene Switcher: Does so much more than switching scenes, giving you an entire macro system for automating your stream reacting to everything from scene switches to Twitch events. Source Clone: Lets you clone any source (with almost no overhead) so that you can apply different filters/effects. Once you need it, you really need it. I dont think I have a single scene that doesn’t have at least 1 or 2 source clones. Downstream Keyer: Lets you specify something to go over the top of your final output. A great place to put follow/sub/etc.. animations and ensure they are shown regardless of the scene you are currently showing. jrDockie: If you use a lot of docks, jrDockie lets you create sets of docks (much like scene collections) to turn off/on. So you can have one set of docks active for editing OBS, and another for when you’re live. QAU (Quick Access Utility): Gives you some very convenient docs, giving you quick access to sources that might be buried in your setup. Also provides a quick-search popup to find sources by name, type, file paths, URLs, and filters used. Its still in pre-release, but a v1.0 release will be on the OBS forums soon. Link goes to the github latest version download page. (DISCLOSURE-I wrote this plugin, and it is under active development) Aitum Vertical: Lets you create a vertical scene/output that is rendered in parallel to your normal output. Makes creating tiktok and youtube vertical vids a piece of cake. Aitum Multistream: Very new plugin that makes multi-streaming to multiple services a breeze. Teleport. It allow you to use OBS on a separate computer to encode/record/upload. Both computers must be running OBS and have the plug-in installed, and be on the same network. A wired connection for both computers is recommended Tuna is what I use for my Spotify integration. I dig that you can have multiple types of song info outputs on your stream, so on my starting soon / brb screens I can have one that is bigger and more detailed, while during stream I can have a lower third with just enough information to credit the artists.Closed Captioning via Google Speech Recognition for when I need captioning. It’s just quite good at it’s job really.Advanced Scene Switcher is what I use mainly for having my streams start right on time. I have a macro that starts 5 minutes ahead of my usual go time. It puts it on my starting soon scene that has a timer, mutes my microphone and any discord audio, then starts the stream. It then waits 4.5 minutes and then hits record so I only have to remove the first 30 seconds in editing. I could have it turn on the mic and discord audio once the timer is up, but if I learned anything when I did TV/Radio back in the day it’s that that’s best left to a human to enable. Source Record. To record each of my sources individually while streaming. Scene Tree Folder for organizing my scenes. It may not be needed for everyone, but as someone who does not just a variety of streams but a variety of streams in different categories, I like to keep things somewhat organized without having to change settings on the same scene or two. This lets me have my chaos and keep it tidy too. It was a great help before I got Touch Portal for an older tablet that I use to switch scenes and such, but even now it helps just keep things organized looking when I decide to do a new type of stream. Speaking of Touch Portal though. Finally, any sort of web/app gui that works alongside OBS Websockets. I use Touch Portal because it doubles as shortcuts for a lot of other things on my computer, but I hear OBS Blade is good too for Android and Apple. I use this to do everything from volume adjustments for my music to switching scenes to mic control. I may not have a physical sound board but it’s the next best thing so I don’t have to drag my mouse to another window or monitor if you have dual monitors. If you have a smart phone / tablet and don’t have a second monitor, I’d look into this to help your streaming process. I hear OBS Blade is totally free but I also saw it has in app purchases so I can’t speak to that. Touch Portal itself is free for a lite sort of version which is pretty well done, but if you want more buttons you need pro which in my case was worth the one time purchase of $14, but then again I use it for way more than OBS. Because it’s not free though, I won’t be linking to any of those apps and if anyone has pure free alternatives or can confirm OBS Blade is totally free, please drop some info below.As a final note, to your comment of “… but in the long run OBS is the best way to go due to it being free + plugins (i think??? hopefully i dont sound dumb).” I would definitely agree with that initial statement, and in no way is it dumb sounding. There’s a reason why the Open Source movement is pretty strong. Instant Replay **** Visual and Audio FX and Filters ShaderFilter: Comes with a huge library of shaders to apply all sorts of crazy effects to your sources. Everything from rainbow effects, to drunk/distortion shaders, to scanlines. Also lets you build your own shaders if you learn HLSL (the shader language OBS uses). Super powerful. Advanced Masks: Lets you mask sources in all sorts of powerful ways. You can mask a source using various shapes, gradients, and even using another source. Brings many
