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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

Section 2: Exploring Liquid Core

This section will dive into the Liquid core, which consists of three main features – objects, tags, and filters – which will help us set a solid groundwork for our future learning. We will learn how to use the different types of objects at our disposal, combined with Liquid programming logic, to turn static templates into a fully dynamic store. Lastly, through the power of filters, we will learn how to manipulate various types of data and turn even a simple set of data into complex features.

This section comprises the following chapters:

  • Chapter 3, Diving into Liquid Core with Tags
  • Chapter 4, Diving into Liquid Core with Objects
  • Chapter 5, Diving into Liquid Core with Filters