![]() This seems kind of like a gut punch to all the agencies that invested time and resources into building clients’ sites in Slate and now they’re kind of on their own if they find bugs unless an internal Shopify developer is facing the same issue. And what they explained that means is they will only fix bugs if “Shopify developers own work is blocked”. Low Maintenance – And finally Shopify announced earlier this year that they put the project on “low maintenance”.So if you were working on building a theme on one version of Slate, the next month you might have to rewrite significant parts of your theme in order to stay compatible with the latest version. Even v1.0 is considered beta and there have been many breaking changes along the way. Beta – Despite Shopify pushing Slate as their theme development platform for the future, it has never gotten out of beta.Some agencies might view that as a bonus because they don’t want pesky clients editing their theme, but I view it as a net negative because you don’t even have the option and merchants are kind of taken aback when they find out they no longer have the control with Shopify that they thought they did. Admin Them Editor – Because the JS and CSS files are stored on the server compiled this also means that it’s not really possible to edit these files from the Admin.Agency Transition – When a Shopify merchant changes agencies, unless the prior agency freely gives their Slate build files, the new agency can’t really edit/maintain the old theme because all the Javascript and CSS files are compiled on the server and basically unreadable/uneditable. ![]() I ended up having to set up a MacOS build server for our developers on Windows to be able to update Slate themes. I (Mark) am a Mac user, but our development team has a mix of Windows and Mac users so this poses an immediate problem.
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