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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

What is Shopify?

Whether a developer or through general use of the internet, chances are that the name Shopify has come up at least once, but what is Shopify? Shopify is a multinational e-commerce company based in Ottawa, Canada, that offers various comprehensive services to its clients. This subscription-based service provides everything from buying the domain to building and managing a future dream store with ease.

Over the years of its existence, Shopify has proven that it is not just another store builder or a tool to sell products. Instead, it has established itself as an e-commerce powerhouse that allows anyone to build the store and create a unique experience for their shoppers. Being a template-based store builder, Shopify offers various free or paid themes to enable store customization, enabling you to use the intuitive and straightforward theme editor without any development knowledge. However, if the end goal is to create an utterly unique store with various customization options at our fingertips, then we will require a developer with Liquid knowledge to customize the theme and create additional options inside the code editor.