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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

Working with global objects

We referenced objects and their attributes in the previous chapter. But what exactly are objects?

These objects, or so-called liquid variables, are elements that allow us to read the content defined in our backend and dynamically output it to help us create better programming logic. We can output the data by combining the objects and attributes encapsulated by double curly braces. An example of the global object that we were using in the previous chapter would be {{ collection.title }}, where the collection keyword would be our object and title would be the attribute.

We can reference these global objects inside any file by directly visiting the page whose content we are looking to recover and calling the object, or manually invoking the object for the specific page using its handle and combining it with the variable tags. Let's see this in action.

As you may recall from the previous chapter, while we were working on the project on our indoor...