749: Coding Shopify with Anne and Trudy of Design Packs

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