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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

Introduction to the Shopify Ajax API

Ajax, or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is a method that we can use to exchange small amounts of data with the server and update the parts of any page, without the need to reload it in its entirety. So, what exactly is the Shopify Ajax API?

The Shopify Ajax API is a REST API endpoint through which we can send out requests to read or update certain information. For example, we can use a GET request to read the product or even the current cart data, or we can use a POST request to update the current content session of the cart.

Shopify Ajax is an unauthenticated API, which means that it does not require any tokens or API keys to gain access to store information. Shopify also provides us with an authenticated API named the Shopify Admin API, which apps and services use to communicate with Shopify servers.

Through the Shopify API, we can access most of our store data, whose responses will return JSON-formatted data, though we can't read...

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