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Shopify Theme Customization with Liquid

You're reading from   Shopify Theme Customization with Liquid Design state-of-the-art, dynamic Shopify eCommerce websites using Liquid's powerful features

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801813969
Length 338 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ivan Djordjevic Ivan Djordjevic
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Shopify Explained
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Shopify FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: The Basic Flow of Liquid 4. Section 2: Exploring Liquid Core
5. Chapter 3: Diving into Liquid Core with Tags 6. Chapter 4: Diving into Liquid Core with Objects 7. Chapter 5: Diving into Liquid Core with Filters 8. Section 3: Behind the Scenes
9. Chapter 6: Configuring the Theme Settings 10. Chapter 7: Working with Static and Dynamic Sections 11. Chapter 8: Exploring the Shopify Ajax API 12. Assessments 13. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix: Frequently Asked Questions

Updating the cart session with a POST request

Previously, we mentioned that we can use a POST request to update the current cart session. Depending on the type of action we are looking to perform, we can pair the POST request with the following cart endpoints:

  • /cart/add.js
  • /cart/update.js
  • /cart/change.js
  • /cart/clear.js

While this might sound trivial, it is an essential aspect of today's e-commerce stores, where we expect to perform an action without refreshing an entire page.

The /cart/add.js endpoint

As its name suggests, the /cart/add.js endpoint allows us to add one or multiple product variants to the cart, without the need to refresh the cart. To perform this action, we need to create an array named items with an object inside containing the following two keys:

  • The id key, whose value should contain the number type value of the variant ID we are adding to the cart.
  • The quantity key, whose value should contain the number type value...
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