Themes and storefront — Shopify development
The storefront layer: choosing a theme you can live with, customisation that survives updates, Liquid basics, Online Store 2.0 sections and metafields, and when Hydrogen and headless are justified.
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Headless Shopify and Hydrogen: when it is justified
Headless buys you control over the storefront and hands you a front-end application to maintain forever. That trade is right for some stores and wrong for most.
Online Store 2.0: sections, blocks and metafields in practice
Sections everywhere and structured metafields changed how themes should be built. Most stores still build them the old way.
Liquid basics for developers coming from elsewhere
Liquid is small, deliberately limited, and renders on Shopify's servers. The constraints are the point — and knowing them saves a week of fighting.
Theme customisation that survives updates
Where you put a change decides whether the next theme release is a merge or an archaeology project.
Choosing a Shopify theme you can live with
The theme you can still update in a year beats the one that demos better today. Judge the vendor, not the screenshot.