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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

Building product accordions

In the following project, we will be learning about the string and array filters by working with and creating the product accordions feature. But, before we proceed with the project, what exactly do string and array filters do?

String filters are methods that allow us to manipulate the output of Liquid code or the variable itself as long as the variable is a string type, whereas array filters allow us to manipulate the output of arrays.

For this project, we will first find one product with a lengthy description. To save some time, we already included the necessary description in the Black Armchairs product that we previously imported from the product-data.csv file in Chapter 3, Diving into Liquid Core with Tags.

Figure 5.4 – Example of a long product description

As we can see from the previous screenshot, having a lengthy product description can be quite inefficient as it takes up a lot of space. While we can easily...