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Ivan Djordjevic
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Ivan Djordjevic

Ivan Djordjevic comes from the small town of Prokuplje, Serbia. As a self-taught developer, he spent the first few years working on different projects, but only when he came in contact with Shopify and learned about Liquid that he found himself. In 2016, Ivan joined Shopify Experts under HeyCarson, where he moved to the lead developer position after a few months. Since joining the Shopify family, Ivan found his passion in sharing his knowledge with other developers and guiding them on their way to becoming a Shopify Expert.
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Updating the cart session with a POST request

Previously, we mentioned that we can use a POST request to update the current cart session. Depending on the type of action we are looking to perform, we can pair the POST request with the following cart endpoints:

  • /cart/add.js
  • /cart/update.js
  • /cart/change.js
  • /cart/clear.js

While this might sound trivial, it is an essential aspect of today's e-commerce stores, where we expect to perform an action without refreshing an entire page.

The /cart/add.js endpoint

As its name suggests, the /cart/add.js endpoint allows us to add one or multiple product variants to the cart, without the need to refresh the cart. To perform this action, we need to create an array named items with an object inside containing the following two keys:

  • The id key, whose value should contain the number type value of the variant ID we are adding to the cart.
  • The quantity key, whose value should contain the number type value...
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Published in: Oct 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801813969

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Ivan Djordjevic

Ivan Djordjevic comes from the small town of Prokuplje, Serbia. As a self-taught developer, he spent the first few years working on different projects, but only when he came in contact with Shopify and learned about Liquid that he found himself. In 2016, Ivan joined Shopify Experts under HeyCarson, where he moved to the lead developer position after a few months. Since joining the Shopify family, Ivan found his passion in sharing his knowledge with other developers and guiding them on their way to becoming a Shopify Expert.
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