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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

Understanding Liquid and its delimiters

One of the two ways that we can discern a Liquid file is by the extension .liquid. Being a template language, a Liquid file is a combination of static and dynamic content:

  • Elements that we write in HTML are called static content, and they stay the same no matter what page we are currently on.
  • On the other side, elements written in Liquid are called dynamic content elements, whose content changes depending on the page we are on.

While our browsers can quickly process the HTML code, they would not know what to do with Liquid code as they do not understand it. We can break up the flow of what happens when we submit a Shopify URL to our browser into five logical steps:

  1. The Shopify server tries to determine which store we are trying to access.
  2. Depending on the type of page we are currently requesting information for, Shopify tries to locate and select the proper Liquid template from the active theme directory.
  3. After...