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Shopify Liquid: deciding what belongs in a theme and what belongs in an app

Liquid themes are appropriate for storefront presentation and reusable sections, while apps, APIs, and checkout extensions should be selected based on the data and behavior that need to change.

DATE August 29, 2024READING 4 min readCATEGORY Ecommerce

Discussions about Shopify Liquid go better when they stay anchored to inputs, owners, and measurable outcomes instead of feature comparisons.

Treat Shopify Liquid as a system decision: inputs, owners, review steps, and the system of record matter more than any single feature comparison.

Review the finished Shopify Liquid work with the people who operate it daily, because maintainability issues surface long before users report them.

Teams planning Shopify Liquid can start by documenting current state, target outcome, dependencies, and acceptance criteria, then validating platform terminology against the primary references below.

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Official documentation, checked and cited.

Terminology and platform behavior in this note trace back to published docs, not secondhand summaries.