themekit VS b-creative

Themekit - development tools to interact with the Shopify platform to watch for local changes and upload them automatically to Shopify

Look into Shopify Themekit (https://shopify.dev/tools/theme-kit) After setting it up you can easily clone into your existing Theme and edit it freely. You can even set up hot reloads and see your edit in realtime on your store.

You have a TON of freedom on the storefront. The checkout, as mentioned before, is pretty darn limited. However you can "monkeypatch" the checkout flow and make most things happen. As far as Liquid goes, read the docs to suss out the limitations and capabilities. I'd recommend using either Themekit, Motifmate, or standard Liquid package locally (won't include Shopify-focused features but will have templating, basic utils, etc) to have a workflow where you can use source control, have local development, and a smooth deployment process.

B-creative is a modern frontend starter from Bornfight that has standardised opinionated code style and architecture for SCSS, Javascript and HTML/PHP/Liquid. It’s used and contributed by multiple teams. B-creative integrates perfectly with Packer because it uses the same linters so we can just copy their configs and have the same style across all platforms. Templates for SCSS and Javascript modules give us faster development times without having to write the same stuff over and over again. Using b-creative’s SCSS is also future proof because it provides tools to scale the site from 1440px (or any configured base resolution) to any bigger resolution and the site will look the same, while still giving the ability to have the other logic for mobile resolutions.