Continued Support for Slate?

[s10wen]

With this project no longer being supported by Shopify:

This repo is no longer active. See README for details

https://github.com/Shopify/slate#-slate---end-of-support-january-2020

I'm wondering out of all the forks:
https://github.com/Shopify/slate/network/members

Is anyone actively continuing to work on Slate?

I'd love to see further development and help out where I can until Shopify release their improved solution.

[alotoftype]

@s10wen, at my organization we completely removed slate and implemented themekit and webpack which allowed for a bit more control. This has allowed us to get a better understanding of the tooling and allowed us to upgrade the dependencies referenced in slate. https://github.com/hayes0724/shopify-webpack-themekit offers some good direction as well as https://github.com/the-couch/slater.

[s10wen]

@alotoftype cheers, I'll check this out!

[james2doyle]

I just had a back and forth with support and they are saying they don’t fully support themekit. Maybe this was incorrect but it seems concerning...

[alotoftype]

Why would they not support something they put out. Very concerning indeed

[s10wen]

https://github.com/Shopify/slate#-slate---end-of-support-january-2020 => "Slate was built upon Theme Kit". Looks like they want to concentrate on improving other areas first, such as the API and the 'Sections architecture' first: https://shopify.dev/tutorials/develop-theme-get-started-with-sections-architecture

Hopefully when they are developed a bit further, they'll pick it back up, or create something else more suitable for the new setup 🤞🏻

[chefjuanpi]

I continue to use Slate and fix some bugs on my fork https://github.com/ChacunSonSite/slate I need dedicate some time to update the documentation for include the upgrades I do like full support for windows. I open to contributions and ideas

[jesster2k10]

@chefjuanpi What changes have you added so far? I'd ideally like to work with Slate since it's the best tool (IMO) for building Shopify Themes, without having to resort to a headless option.

[chefjuanpi]

1. Full support for windows.
2. Add webpack-bundle-analyzer, just use yarn build --analyze or yarn build -a. it helps to catch where the build can be optimized.
3. Remove Slate-analytics (it's dead no one is reading this...)
4. upgrade packages and rewrite the call when is necessary.

I'm block upgrading htmlWebpackPlugin the template is uncompatible, with the new version. I like to upgrade this for use better optimizations during buils. Now it's possible to use webpack optimization on slate.config.js something like:

if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production') {
  optimization = {
    splitChunks: {
      chunks: 'all',
      automaticNameDelimiter: '-',
      name: true,
      cacheGroups: {},
      minSize: 100000,
      maxSize: 200000,
    },
    mergeDuplicateChunks: true,
  };
}

it split the bundle into chunks (better for accelerating the time response and charge) but /snippets/script-tags.liquid and /snippets/style-tags.liquid only list the chunks, you need to manually insert the liquid code to optimize and organize the Js and css calls.

[jesster2k10]

1. Full support for windows.
2. Add webpack-bundle-analyzer, just use yarn build --analyze or yarn build -a. it helps to catch where the build can be optimized.
3. Remove Slate-analytics (it's dead no one is reading this...)
4. upgrade packages and rewrite the call when is necessary.

I'm block upgrading htmlWebpackPlugin the template is uncompatible, with the new version. I like to upgrade this for use better optimizations during buils. Now it's possible to use webpack optimization on slate.config.js something like:

if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production') {
  optimization = {
    splitChunks: {
      chunks: 'all',
      automaticNameDelimiter: '-',
      name: true,
      cacheGroups: {},
      minSize: 100000,
      maxSize: 200000,
    },
    mergeDuplicateChunks: true,
  };
}

it split the bundle into chunks (better for accelerating the time response and charge) but /snippets/script-tags.liquid and /snippets/style-tags.liquid only list the chunks, you need to manually insert the liquid code to optimize and organize the Js and css calls.

That sounds great! Thank you 🙏. I'll take a look at it and try it out. Leaning more towards this than setting up a custom webpack configuration, using another tool, or even going headless. I've been working with slate since the early beta and would much rather stick to what I know best.

If you put together a roadmap, I wouldn't mind making some contributions in my free time.