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Shopify Theme Customization with Liquid

You're reading from  Shopify Theme Customization with Liquid

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801813969
Pages 338 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Ivan Djordjevic Ivan Djordjevic
Profile icon Ivan Djordjevic

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Shopify Explained
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Shopify 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

Retrieving data with a GET request

As we mentioned previously, using a GET request, we can pull all types of data from Shopify servers, except for customer and order information, which can only be accessed using an authenticated Shopify Admin API. Depending on the type of action we are looking to perform, we can pair the GET request with the following endpoints:

  • /cart.js
  • /products/{product-handle}.js
  • /recommendations/products.json
  • /search/suggest.json

The GET request is a pretty powerful method that we will commonly use in combination with a POST request to retrieve data after making changes to the current cart session. However, we can also use a GET request to retrieve and create complex functionalities, as we are about to learn.

The /cart.js endpoint

The /cart.js endpoint, as its name suggests, allows us to access the current cart session and retrieve all the information about the cart, as well as products inside the cart. We can use it to dynamically...

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