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749: Coding Shopify with Anne and Trudy of Design Packs

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.
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