shopify-theme-lab VS shopify-packer

Shopify Theme Lab This workflow tooling uses webpack bundler with Vue to generate Shopify theme code. It may help you get Vue bootstrapped into a theme for you.

7. Shopify Theme Lab

Have you checked out Theme Lab? If you are having any underlying issues non-related to your setup this would iron them out. I'd try to setup a dummy theme and see if its something terminal/CLI related or something misconfigured on your partner end/shopify side.

You should check out UI crooks theme lab. I've taken 2 stores built with Slate v0 and upgraded them to a modern workflow where I was able to drop the whole repo for the old v0 into UI crooks and sort of sunset the old method of using Slate. Online Store 2.0 is not equivalent to Slate as you are suggestion (theme.js, SASS). Slate was an opinionated set of tools to build a theme for Shopify. Shopify CLI is more of a tool to communicate with your local machine and the remote server. The actual tooling is now left up to you. Back when Slate got started jQuery ruled the world. Shopify is backing away from telling developers the specifics of how they will build stores. Shopify also has taken a lame approach to this evergreen web. I get it but they are espousing a belief due to the underlying issue with the app ecosytem being incompatible with modern web development. They did include app sections to help. But still.

In the end, I said: "Fine, I'll do it myself". That's pretty much how the Shopify Theme Lab project started. Of course, the road to the finished product was a little bit more complicated, but that's another story.

Shopify Packer written by Eric Hayes is probably the best thing happened to Shopify theme development since Shopify stopped supporting Slate. It's everything we all hoped for and that's a promise. Packer uses Webpack 5 with zero config to compile, bundle, split and minify your modern development technologies and start a server for development with hot module reloading actually working perfectly. It can also create, list and manipulate (delete, download, deploy etc) themes from your shop which is a lifesaver sometimes. I also love using Eric's Shopify Packer because it uses SCSS, Stylelint, ESLint, Babel and PostCSS. It can analyze bundles and have multiple entry points for templates and layouts. It's actually a CLI tool that’s installed globally and you can start a new project or integrate Packer with an existing theme in ridiculously little time. Most importantly you can easily customize all settings for the site and webpack if needed. Eric also provides quick support for the packer so i would highly recommend it and also buy him a beer because he deserves one for this!