Shopify Essentials Series
Building and speeding up Shopify stores: Liquid, theme performance, custom apps, the Shopify API and deployment.
7 parts in this series.
Liquid techniques that make a Shopify theme faster: shallow snippets, cheaper loops, lazy loading below the fold and scripts that load only where used.
A non-technical guide for Shopify store owners to the common causes of a slow store, and how to fix most of them without a rebuild or a new theme.
The parts of Shopify's Liquid templating language you'll use on every theme: output and logic tags, objects, filters, loops, snippets and the usual mistakes.
Building a custom Shopify app: the stack, embedded or standalone, App Bridge and Polaris, token exchange, the GraphQL Admin API, webhooks and launch.
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