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Shopnsync was inspired by Slate, and we are very grateful to the work the Slate team does. In the end however, we found Slate didn’t mesh well with our workflow for a couple of reasons.

Slate is a zero-config setup, but extending or modifying that config wasn’t possible pre-beta and documentation for doing so now is lacking. Not having to worry about configuration is nice, and we believe in the zero-config setup. However, not at the expense of extending or customizing that configuration. As developers we understand that while many of our projects share a lot of the same requirements, each project is a little different. As such, we put the configs that Shopnsync uses at your fingertips.

In the same vein as theme configuration is installing Shopify Apps. We like the ability to use Shopify apps, and to be able to install them at any stage of development. Sometimes apps need to inject code into different templates. Because your theme is entirely generated from source when using Slate, it makes modifying any code on Shopify a frustrating process. We found the round trip of running a Slate build, pulling the theme from Shopify into a different directory, diffing those changes, copying those differences into the src files, then recompiling and uploading that theme to Shopify to be tedious.

Overall, Slate is a great tool and it is a good fit for a lot of developers. It just doesn’t go well with our workflow, and think there may be other devs. out there who feel the same. So, if you want a modern developer workflow building Shopify themes that makes using Shopify Apps a breeze, and with full config customization, look no further.