Book Image

Shopify Theme Customization with Liquid

By : Ivan Djordjevic
Book Image

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 3: Diving into Liquid Core with Tags

In the previous chapters, we saw some Liquid tags, such as control flow tags, in action. In this chapter, we will learn more about all the different tags we can use to modify our page content dynamically. We will learn about creating variable tags and theme tags and the best way to use them.

Learning about various types of iterations tags and parameters, we will gain the ability to execute blocks of code repeatedly, which will help us write better-quality code. Finally, we will mention some deprecated tags; they still appear in some older themes, so it is essential to know what they do and how to use them.

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Controlling the flow of Liquid (control tags)
  • Variable tags
  • Iterations tags
  • Theme tags
  • Deprecated tags

This third chapter will expand our knowledge of logic and comparison operators and different data types by exploring Liquid programming logic.