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Shopify Theme Customization with Liquid

Shopify Theme Customization with Liquid

By : Djordjevic
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Shopify Theme Customization with Liquid

Shopify Theme Customization with Liquid

4.7 (17)
By: Djordjevic

Overview of this book

Shopify is one of the fastest-growing eCommerce platforms, which means developers familiar with the Liquid concept are needed now more than ever. This book will help you to build a solid foundation by enabling you to develop your skills from the ground up by gaining essential theoretical knowledge of Liquid and putting that knowledge to use through hands-on projects. Shopify Theme Customization with Liquid begins by helping you get to grips with basic Shopify information, its interface and theme structure, setting up your Partner account, and creating a child theme, which is essential when preparing for any future work on Shopify. You'll then explore Liquid core features that will provide you with a basic understanding of the Liquid programming logic needed to develop any feature. As you advance to the latest and advanced features, you'll learn about JSON settings, allowing you to create any type of static or dynamic section - a must-have for becoming a competent Shopify developer. Finally, the book takes you through the Shopify Ajax API to gain the necessary skills needed to create a variety of dynamic features and content. By the end of this Shopify book, you'll be able to take on challenging projects to showcase your theme customization expertise to your future employer.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Section 1: Shopify Explained
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Section 2: Exploring Liquid Core
8
Section 3: Behind the Scenes
Appendix: Frequently Asked Questions

Exploring JSON settings

In Chapter 1, Getting Started with Shopify, we briefly mentioned the Config directory, where we can define and manage the global JSON values across the entire theme. Let's remind ourselves of the two essential .json files that we can find within this directory:

  • The settings_schema.json file allows us to create and manage the content inside the theme editor on our theme, which we can reference throughout the entire theme file.
  • The settings_data.json file, on the other hand, records all the options defined in our schema file and saves their values. We can consider this file as our theme database, which we can manage by updating the theme settings through the theme editor or by directly editing the values inside the settings_data.json file.

We can group the global settings options into different categories for more straightforward navigation, which we can do using the name and settings attributes:

{
  "name": &quot...

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