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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. Sick Picks Trudy: Bar of Shampoo Anne: Alie Ward Ologies Podcast Shameless Plugs Trudy: 25% off using SYNTAX25 at Design Packs Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott:X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

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