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.
- 54:08 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs.
- Trudy: Bar of Shampoo
- Anne: Alie Ward Ologies Podcast
- Trudy: 25% off using SYNTAX25 at Design Packs
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