The Issue
I'm trying to create a theme for a client on a Shopify-like platform called EasyStore. After having looked through their documentation and developer area, they don't seem to have robust support for theme building yet. They have no staging area which means I would have to develop a theme while the website is live. This brings me to my question, how can I set up a non-Shopify Liquid local dev environment?
What I've tried
- I've tried using Live Server in VSCode but unfortunately there's no support for Liquid.
- Thought I could use shopify-cli but I would need to upload that theme to Shopify.
- Locally develop the front-end portion of the website(HTML/CSS/JS), then upload it and add in Liquid to test the functionality of the website. Since there is no staging area I will be doing this while the website is live which isn't a big issue as the brand hasn't been launched yet.
Is there a better solution? Thanks for reading!