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by dabernathy89 3610 days ago
Very cool. Would love for Shopify to do something similar. These full-featured, hosted CMSs - NationBuilder, Shopify, Hubspot, SquareSpace - offer a lot of neat features, but the development experience ranges from slightly frustrating to plain old miserable.
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drsim 3610 days ago
I haven't found that to be the case for Shopify. Our theme is in git and each developer has their own development shop (hosted by Shopify for free).

Using the Shopify theme tool, changes in the local file system are automatically published to their development shop. The experience is the same as if you were running a local instance.

Production deployment is simply having a different folder mapped to master and watched by the theme tool too.

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dabernathy89 3610 days ago
> changes in the local file system are automatically published to their development shop

in my experience this has been really annoying. changes can be pushed up nearly instantly, or sometimes they can take more than 5 seconds. this makes livereload unreliable.

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