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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

Controlling the flow of Liquid

In the previous chapters, we saw some control flow tags, such as if, and, and or, in action; now we will dive further into this topic and learn about all the control flow types of tags and how to use them. Control flow tags are a type of Liquid programming logic that tells our Liquid code what to do by allowing us to be selective about which block of code should execute under specific conditions. We can divide the control flow tags into four separate groups:

  • if/else/elsif
  • and/or
  • case/when
  • unless

The if/else/elsif tags

We have had the pleasure of seeing the conditional if statement in some of our previous examples, which, if proved true, execute the code inside our statement. Let's see it in action. In the previous chapter, we created the Learning about the page handle page.

However, let's try and create a new page for this exercise to solidify our knowledge and keep everything concise:

  1. Let's start...