What’s new?

Polaris Internationalization Foundations 2.0

• Updated the Internationalization guidelines with our latest best practices, more details, and better examples
• Added App Release Notes content guidelines

Polaris React v5.0.0

Polaris React v5.0.0 is a major release that introduces breaking changes, primarily due to removing integrated App Bridge support as consumers using App Bridge should use the @shopify/app-bridge-react package.

Read the full release notes for more information.

For instructions on updating from v4 to v5, read the migration guide.

• Added information architecture principles to the foundations section

• Updated the font stack to prioritize Segoe UI over Roboto
• Removed links to the Polaris Telescope Sketch plugin, as Shopify has switched to Figma (for reference, you can find the source code on GitHub)

• Added “Selling in person” section under Experiences

• Added definition for the term “Customers” to the Vocabulary page

• Disabled inline editing within the code block on a component page

• Updated the information architecture by breaking up the Patterns and guides section into two sections: Foundations and Experiences. High-level guidelines applicable to all Shopify experiences were migrated to the Foundations section. Specific guidance for Shopify experiences, like the Shopify admin, are located in the Experiences section. This will allow for the future contribution of documentation for areas other than the admin, and help people form mental models around the different types of patterns and guides documentation in the style guide.
• Added Merchant to customer content guidelines.
• Added guidelines for formatting localized currencies in the Patterns and guides section.

• Reordered the Content section to prepare for some information architecture changes and additions.

• The Sketch UI kit, illustrations and Sass files zip bundle, which used to be hosted on the Shopify/polaris-react releases page, are now hosted on this website.

Content and guidelines

• Added directional language guidelines to the Actionable language section.

Components

• Released ResourceItem as its own component with Polaris React v4.1.0

Polaris React v4.0.0

Polaris React v4.0.0 is a major release that introduces breaking changes, primarily due to updates made to component internals. This builds a stronger foundation that ensures readiness for future React performance improvements.

This release doesn’t include any new components, but it does update some components to use React Hooks. It also deletes several deprecated features and removes dependencies on legacy context and unsafe lifecycle methods. Thanks to these improvements, Polaris React is React Strict Mode compliant.

Read the full release notes for more information.

For instructions on updating from v3 to v4, read the migration guide.

Website updates

• Added links to the GitHub source and ChromaUI example previews in component pages

Content and guidelines

• Updated the principles page with our new Shopify experience values. These values help guide how we build experiences at Shopify.
• Added In-card list to the Mobile Patterns section.

Components

• Released Filters with Polaris React v3.19.0

Content and guidelines

• Added conversational experiences guidelines to help you craft and deliver exceptional chat bot and messaging experiences.

Tooling

• Launched Polaris icons, a collection of simple and informative icons that draw on the visual language of the Polaris design system. Use these icons in your projects or third-party apps to promote a consistent experience across the Shopify platform.

Content and guidelines

• Added content guidelines for home cards

Content and guidelines

• Added new accessibility recommendations to the banner, inline error, loading, toast, checkbox, radio button, and choice list components
• Updated the accessibility recommendations for the button component
• Added guidelines for designing onboarding flows to the Patterns and guides section

Content and guidelines

• Added new accessibility recommendations to the button, link, text field, and autocomplete components
• Added writing guidelines for confirmations to the Actionable language section

Components

• Released Skeleton thumbnail with Polaris React v3.8.0

Content and guidelines

• Added new accessibility recommendations to the data visualizations page

Content and guidelines

• The Patterns section and Guides section of the style guide were combined into one. See the combined Patterns and guides section.

Content and guidelines

• Polaris icons should be used purposefully. The updated icons guidelines include more detailed principles and guidelines with visual examples.

v3.0.0

Components

The following components released with Polaris React v3.0.0:

• Autocomplete
• Contextual save bar
• Frame
• Loading
• Toast
• Top bar

Embedded apps

• Updated Page, Modal, and Resource picker to use the new Shopify App Bridge (formerly EASDK).
• The new Toast and Loading components now also provide a wrapper around the Shopify App Bridge.
• Removed the embedded bundle, and there is no longer a distinction between embedded components and regular components. Just import the component needed and it will do the right thing based on its context.
• For more information see the embedded apps documentation and how to initialize the Shopify App Bridge.

Open development

• Polaris React now welcomes pull requests. See the contribution guidelines for more information.

License

• Updated the Polaris React license. The source code is now under a custom license based on MIT. The license restricts Polaris React usage to applications that integrate or interoperate with Shopify software or services, with additional restrictions for external, stand-alone applications.
• Added the Polaris Design Guidelines License Agreement. The license restricts Polaris Design Guidelines usage to applications that integrate or interoperate with Shopify software or services, with additional restrictions for external, stand-alone applications and embedded applications.

Content and guidelines

• Using clear, consistent terminology in buttons helps merchants know what actions to take. The actionable language guidelines explain what to label buttons for different states in web, iOS, and Android.

Website updates

• Added new links to resources on the homepage
• Component status: added links to the GitHub issues related to components under consideration and in development
• Examples for iOS and Android are gradually being rolled out to components, starting with:
  • Card
  • Radio button
  • Banner
  • Button
  • Button group
  • Badge
  • Caption
  • Collapsible
  • Display text
  • Empty state
  • Heading
  • List
  • Pagination
  • Popover
  • Select
  • Subheading
  • Tabs
  • Tag
  • Text container
  • Text field
  • Text style
  • Thumbnail

Content and guidelines

• Error messages can be scary. The new error message guidelines help make errors visible to merchants, easy to understand, and helpful.
• Apply consistent spacing to improve the quality of the user interface with the new spacing guidelines.
• Type scale: changed “Display regular” to “Display medium”.
• Struggling to come up with the right data viz? Take a look at the new “Five core traits” section in data visualizations to learn how to evaluate an effective viz.
• The new Keyboard accessories page describes how to handle the keyboard on mobile devices.

Components

• Inline error is released with Polaris React v2.6.1.

Content and guidelines

• Discover how sounds are used to enhance the overall experience of our product in the new sounds section

Components

• Released option list with Polaris React v2.3.0

Website updates

• Added a CodeSandbox integration on the component playground to make it easier to take code from the examples and continue prototyping with it in a React app.
• Scrolling should now feel more natural, and works a lot better on small screens.
• You can now search for terms such as “dropshipping” or “POS” to discover the meaning behind the vocabulary used at Shopify. Thanks to Lucas C. at Algolia for the help in making this happen.
• To improve the transparency of our roadmap, the component status page now features components in development and under consideration. It also shows a list of components that are not planned.

Components

• Range slider is released with Polaris React v2.2.0

Components

Polaris React v2.0.0. This is the first major version of Polaris React since launch. Included in this release are:

• Several new components, including data table, drop zone, app provider, and modal
• Improved existing components, such as resource list, choice list, and cards
• A few breaking API changes

Full v2.0.0 release notes

Sketch UI kit

We’ve also released a new version of the Sketch UI kit to reflect the new and updated components. The new UI kit includes more Polaris icons, as well as new layout templates for common page types. We’ve also revised how the kit is organized, so it’s now easier to use as a Sketch library.

We’ll keep updating the UI kit to ensure that the components in Sketch match the latest versions in React.

Download UI Kit

Content and guidelines

• Introduced the interaction states guide, here to help merchants understand what to expect while interacting with Shopify
• Added the all new internationalization guide. Learn how to build interfaces that work for Shopify merchants in every part of the world.
• Introduced the guide to crafting the Shopify admin. The Shopify admin is where merchants set up their store and manage their business. These guidelines have practical ideas to help people who work for Shopify create a better admin for merchants.
• Created the guide to designing apps for Shopify, to help you design apps that merchants trust, understand, and ultimately fall in love with.

Content and guidelines

• Added an all-new “What’s new” page (the one you’re currently reading 🙃)
• Added guidelines for timestamp formats in grammar and mechanics
• Added “pick up” (verb) and “pickup” (noun) to the vocabulary page

Resources

• The GraphQL API now surfaces design tokens (colors, spacing, and font stacks):

  {
    designTokens {
      name
      value
      originalValue
      comment
      type
      category
    }
  }

  Try this query in your browser

Content and guidelines

• Removed the “Purpose” sections on all component pages, as they often overlapped with existing content.
• Updated embedded component pages to feature more detailed usage guides. Also added some screenshots showing what embedded components look like in a Shopify app (in v2 and up, refer to the app provider component).

Component playground

• Improved the component playground to display more detailed information about props and their respective types
• Components with an icon prop (such as the Banner component) now show a list of all available icons in the playground
• We tamed the text editor’s cursor so it doesn’t jump around unexpectedly anymore

Resources

• Polaris.ase (Adobe Swatch Exchange) and Polaris.clr (macOS) color palettes are distributed alongside the Sketch UI kit and Polaris.sketchpalette that you’ll find in the GitHub releases page – Download the UI Kit and palettes.
• The Polaris design tokens (colors, spacing, font stacks… for Sass, CSS, JavaScript) are available on npm and GitHub. Here’s the full list of available tokens.
• The GraphQL API powering this site was opened to the public at https://polaris.shopify.com/api – Read the API documentation.

We’re constantly updating the style guide and releasing new content for Polaris, but before March 2018, we didn’t have a place to share those updates. Here are a few you may have missed:

• Naming is hard: that’s why we documented the names we give our products, features, and icons in the new naming guidelines page
• Polaris Telescope: access Polaris from Sketch to speed up your design or development workflow