The Benefit of Using Git in Shopify Theme Development

I worked on a Shopify store through a local freelancer. After about a month, he asked me to solve an issue in the same store. Luckily I used Git last time while I worked. However, the store owner encountered an issue and asked the freelancer to help resolve it. The freelancer, in turn, reached out to me.

The store owner had collaborated with a Shopify app development team to set up their app on his store. After their work, the store website began to behave unexpectedly, which needed fixing. I agreed to investigate but mentioned that I wasn’t certain how long it would take to identify the issue.

Since I had used Git during my previous work on the store's same theme, I could easily compare the latest changes with the previous code that I had written. Then I pulled the code from the store's theme via the CLI and compared it with my previous version. Within 45 minutes of reviewing the code, I identified a small mistake in the Liquid template that was causing the issue. Once fixed, the store ran smoothly again.

This experience reaffirmed how Git can help developers with Shopify theme development work. Without Git, this would have been extremely time-consuming and difficult to track changes manually. But with Git, I was able to quickly pinpoint the issue and resolve it efficiently. This is just one example; similar situations have occurred many times during my freelance development journey.

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