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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 first chapter, we have covered the essential aspects of Shopify by learning what Shopify is and how to create an account on the Shopify Partners Program, which we will use through our learning process, as well as for any future work on the Shopify platform.

We have created a development store and have also understood how and why it is crucial to create a duplicate theme before making any significant changes. While some of the things we have covered might sound irrelevant, each of these will help us to better understand the workflow that we will be doing regularly as a Shopify developer.

Lastly, we have acquired some knowledge of the internal structure of our theme files, which will be of great use to us in the following chapter, where we will be familiarizing ourselves with the fundamentals of Liquid and further developing our knowledge on theme customization.