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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

Iterations tags

Iterations tags are different Liquid programming logic types that allow us to run blocks of code repeatedly. Using iteration tags will save us the time that it would otherwise take us to execute code for each occurrence manually; plus, it will make our code much more concise and readable. To keep the topic concise, we will only mention some of the most used iteration tags and their parameters, which is more important than listing them all as they are all created using similar concepts. We can divide the iteration tags into four separate groups:

  • for/else
  • jump statements
  • for parameters
  • cycle

The for/else tags

In the previous chapter, we had the chance to use the for loop in one of our examples when we explained the arrays inside the Understand the types of data topic. However, we have not had the chance to explain all the possibilities that the for loop gives us. The for loop is a type of Liquid programming logic that allows us to loop over...