Hi all,
It looks like themekit doesn’t download the blocks folder at all, doesn’t sync at all using the watch command, and just gets stuck when using the deploy command.
my ignore_files setting is clean too. Is anyone else running into this?
I hope this isn’t a silly question, but why are you still using themekit?
I’m 99.9% sure ThemeKit does not support blocks, you will need to use the Shopify CLI.
It was let’s say, not great to use for theme work back when I tried.
May have changed.
But still, is themekit no longer maintained?
I see, it’s been marked as deprecated. Thanks!
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Ok someone made a fork.. the kit might be hanging on for a bit longer!
I have to ask, why do you want to use Theme Kit? What’s stopping you from moving to the CLI?
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Literally lack of time to get into a new tool. I’ve been using the CLI for app dev and it’s just fine for that, but the last time I tried using it for themes it was a bit painful.
Don’t remember exactly why, it was a while ago. It must have improved since then.
Just did a quick test run of the CLI for theme work. Couldn’t figure out how to switch accounts/store, googled a bunch found a forum post about the -s [store].myshopify.com flag. Which seems to work ok. Tested that the preview link keeps working after I close off the CLI dev session.
I don’t think any of these details are stated in the CLI’s help sections. Don’t think it’s on the docs either.
Anyway, it’s things like that. I’m sure I’ll run into more.
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Oh my bad, it is in the docs. Just a bit burried. I don’t know I feel like switching stores/account should be a frequently used feature and deserves its own “main” command. Also is the current store global, or local to the instance of CLI,.. etc questions like this.
And where is the “dev” theme persisted, if the preview link persists, it must be somewhere - do we see it in the Online Store themes selection admin UI?