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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

Retrieving data with a GET request

As we mentioned previously, using a GET request, we can pull all types of data from Shopify servers, except for customer and order information, which can only be accessed using an authenticated Shopify Admin API. Depending on the type of action we are looking to perform, we can pair the GET request with the following endpoints:

  • /cart.js
  • /products/{product-handle}.js
  • /recommendations/products.json
  • /search/suggest.json

The GET request is a pretty powerful method that we will commonly use in combination with a POST request to retrieve data after making changes to the current cart session. However, we can also use a GET request to retrieve and create complex functionalities, as we are about to learn.

The /cart.js endpoint

The /cart.js endpoint, as its name suggests, allows us to access the current cart session and retrieve all the information about the cart, as well as products inside the cart. We can use it to dynamically...