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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

Chapter 8: Exploring the Shopify Ajax API

In the previous chapters, we learned about the basics of Shopify and Liquid, which provided us with some solid groundwork for future development. After setting up a proper foundation for our future learning, we learned how Liquid core works. By learning about objects, tags, and filters, we have learned how to create complex functionalities using a somewhat simple and insignificant set of features. Lastly, we learned how to create easily configurable elements throughout the store using various input type settings, combined with the sections and blocks attributes.

Throughout these chapters, we have learned how to create elements with static content. However, what if we were looking to update the content of our pages dynamically? This is where the Shopify Ajax API comes to help. In this final chapter, we will go over the Shopify Ajax API, explain its requirements and limitations, as well as its possible use cases.

In this chapter, we will...