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Shopify Theme Customization with Liquid

By : Ivan Djordjevic
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Shopify Theme Customization with Liquid

By: Ivan 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)
1
Section 1: Shopify Explained
4
Section 2: Exploring Liquid Core
8
Section 3: Behind the Scenes
Appendix: Frequently Asked Questions

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to combine our previously attained knowledge of basic and specialized inputs with the section schema. This allows us to create everything from simple to complex layouts that we can easily configure throughout the theme editor.

By learning the difference between static and dynamic sections, we learned how to extend a section's functionality and make it accessible on any type of page. Additionally, besides learning how to create different types of sections, we have also gained knowledge of how to create different types of blocks modules, which will allow us to rearrange the layouts of a single section to make it easy to configure.

Lastly, we learned about the different types of section-specific tags that we can use to develop the content of the section further, as well as creating a unique experience for specific sections or even blocks modules.

In the next chapter, we will learn about what Shopify Ajax is and how we can utilize it...