Scott and Wes are joined by special guests Trudy MacNabb and Anne Thomas from Design Packs, diving into the nitty-gritty of Shopify design. Tune in as they dissect the pros and cons, challenges, and unveil their daily toolkit for crafting stunning Shopify websites.

Show Notes

• 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
• 00:59 Who is Anne Thomas?
• 02:30 Who is Trudy MacNabb?
• 04:06 Shopify themes, how does one build a theme?
• 05:34 Do you have enough control with LiquidJS?
• 07:52 Changing components of a liquid template.
• 08:58 LiquidJS improving their dev tools.
• 09:29 LiquidJS email marketing.
• 10:32 Can you make your own LiquidJS methods?
• Too Many Tabs
• 11:34 How would you create a theme from scratch using modern tools?
• 13:30 What about local dev and live reload?
• Shopify Tools CLI
• 15:17 Is Shopify improving?
• 17:13 What do you hate about Shopify themes?
• Shopify Tools Theme Kit
• 18:59 Have you used Hydrogen?
• Shopify Hydrogen
• 20:09 Headless has sacrifices.
• 22:02 Are people building full websites in Shopify?
• 23:56 Apps and integrations.
• 25:56 Are people creating businesses around these integrations?
• 29:16 What are design packs?
• 31:26 Do you run your own servers?
• 31:57 How does billing work with clients?
• 33:18 Apps being ‘Sherlocked’.
• ‘Sherlocking’ Explained
• 35:21 Where is the data stored?
• 36:35 Can you make a custom UI?
• 38:40 What are the downsides of building apps on Shopify?
• 39:17 Are you expected to maintain versions?
• 40:46 Do you manage all the support independently?
• 42:01 How do you match with their existing themes?
• 43:54 What are the most popular blocks?
• 45:17 Does Shopify provide bundlers or compilers?
• 46:47 Shopify moving to blocks.
• 47:38 Living as a digital nomad.
• Syntax Episode 586 on Nomad Developing
• 49:48 A new app Anne and Trudy launched.
• 51:35 Limited by block size.
• 54:08 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs.

Sick Picks

• Trudy: Bar of Shampoo
• Anne: Alie Ward Ologies Podcast

Shameless Plugs

• Trudy: 25% off using SYNTAX25 at Design Packs

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