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Ivan Djordjevic
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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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Working with global objects

We referenced objects and their attributes in the previous chapter. But what exactly are objects?

These objects, or so-called liquid variables, are elements that allow us to read the content defined in our backend and dynamically output it to help us create better programming logic. We can output the data by combining the objects and attributes encapsulated by double curly braces. An example of the global object that we were using in the previous chapter would be {{ collection.title }}, where the collection keyword would be our object and title would be the attribute.

We can reference these global objects inside any file by directly visiting the page whose content we are looking to recover and calling the object, or manually invoking the object for the specific page using its handle and combining it with the variable tags. Let's see this in action.

As you may recall from the previous chapter, while we were working on the project on our indoor...

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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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