Shopify has launched Next Generation Events in developer preview, offering a more granular and flexible alternative to traditional webhooks. Key features include field-level triggers so subscriptions only fire when specific fields change (e.g., only on price updates, not title edits), custom payload definitions via Admin GraphQL queries to avoid over-fetching, explicit `fields_changed` metadata in every delivery, state-based filtering with `query_filter`, and configuration-as-code via `shopify.app.toml`. Currently available in the `unstable` API version with Product and Customer topics live. The feature eliminates the need to diff state or make follow-up API calls after a webhook lands.
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