Theme Development: New Tools, Better Liquid
summary
Announces concrete theme features: new Liquid settings (image picker, article, video, HTML), image drop now includes width height and aspect ratio and Shopify backfilled 3/4 billion images, responsive-image changes cut mobile initial page weight ~85% and render time ~50% in Narrative tests, nested navigation supports up to three levels with link.children and link.levels, product option drop exposes name/position/values/selected, a bundled CLI scaffold Slate: theme scaffolding tool plus slate-variants, slate-sections, slate-tools and an accessibility library a11y.js.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:19New editor settings
- 6:54Font improvements
- 7:15Responsive images
- 12:09Nested navigation
- 14:14Product option drops
- 17:06Slate tool introduction
- 21:49Accessibility with Slate
- 23:34Development and deployment
- 24:58Q&A
