Code Shopify

Shopify Sections : The What, Where, When, and How

If you have played around with metafield editor extensions, explored shortcodes, and created content editing Shopify apps you may be a part of a group wondering - how can you give the shop owner more control over shop customization and still maintain an intuitive admin system. We've got one word for you: Sections.

The Javascript SDK Part 1: Displaying Products on an External Site

include your product on other sites (maybe you run a blog and want to have a featured product purchaseable from a sidebar) or do not need a full-blown shop right away. This is where the Shopify Javascript SDK comes in.

Using Gulp For Sass Compilation - Allows for Sass Partials with Liquid Tags 🙌

We are going to be using gulp to do a couple of different things: compile our scss, autoprefix any properties that need it, rename our compiled scss file to styles.scss.liquid, and allow for addition of Liquid tags in our partials

Shopify Development Flow - SASS, Compass, and Liquid

Now that you’re all set up to code Shopify you may be happy to know that you can write in scss and there’s a precompiler already built in! You may be sad to find out that Shopify only supports having 1 scss file (styles.scss) and that you can’t take advantage of breaking your code out into partials for organization. This is where compass comes in to save the day.

Switching from Themekit to Slate

Things at Shopify are always developing quickly and one of the latest developments is a command line tool to help theme developers develop quickly as well (😉), Slate.

Advanced grid layouts with the cycle tag

In this post we'll use the cycle tag to create an advanced image grid layout. Cycle allows you to loop through a group of strings and outputs them in the order that they were passed as parameters...

Local Shopify Development with Slate

Shopify is a closed ecosystem. This in part means that in order to access the data from your Shopify store you need to serve your theme files through Shopify...

Shopify Sections with Dynamic Blocks

Shopify sections have been such a wonderful addition to creating interesting and unique online stores. They allow developers to create styled blocks that can be modified by the store's admins.

Shopify App and Theme Development tutorials for those who are familiar with code and want to dive into Shopify.