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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about different types of objects while considering various projects. Within our first project, Custom collection, we learned how to access single-valued attributes within the product object by creating a custom collection feature with a fully functional product form. The second project, Custom navigation, taught us how to access and handle objects whose attributes return an array. Working through the Product Customization project, we understood how to capture multiple data types, chain them with the selected variant, and output the same data on both the cart and checkout pages.

Besides working on different projects, we also had the pleasure of learning how to install new apps from the store and how to use a third-party app to create additional input fields within our admin, which gave us access to metafields objects.

Finally, we learned about the different types of content and special objects, why some are mandatory, where we can find them...