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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 4, Diving into Liquid Core with Objects

Question 1

What are we missing in the following block of code to make form functional?

{% form "product", product %}
  <input type="hidden" value="{{ 
   product.first_available_variant.id }}" />
    <input type="submit" value="Add to Cart"/>
{% endform %}

Answer

While we have introduced the id variant, which is necessary to create a working product form, we didn't use a name attribute with id as its value. We can remind ourselves of how this works by going back to the Custom collection subtopic, in the Working with global objects section.

Question 2

How can we get access to the product object through a link defined in the admin navigation?

Answer

To access the product object through the navigation menu, we will need to use a for tag to iterate over the navigation menu. Once we have found which menu item...