parcel-themekit

Parcel Themekit Starter

This project is based on a great Medium post from Dan Webb. I’ve grown pretty frustrated with trying to use both Slate V0 & Slate V1, both of which seem to have lost all ongoing development support at Shopify. Alas, the starter files you need to get a custom theme up and running are pretty slim.

Parcel bundler helps us to use some more modern development techniques & build for a wide variety of browsers using PostCSS & Babel. Some notable depedencies are babel-polyfill and jquery - as from what I understand, jQuery is required to interact with some of Shopify’s client APIs.

Setup

• Run git clone https://github.com/brohlson/parcel-themekit.git MY_THEME_NAME
• Run sudo npm i -g parcel-bundler
• Install the dependencies with command yarn
• Create a config.yml file at project root based on the example with your store credentials & connect to a theme. You can clone the starter Debut theme & then connect to the clone to make life easier.
• Run yarn dev command to watch for changes
• Build the production bundle files with yarn build.
• Finally, sync the built files to your store with yarn deploy.
• Simple build command is tested in this repo via Circle CI. Settings could be extended to test whatever you need.