The Explorer theme is used in conjunction with the Shopify CLI Theme Component Plugin to create an isolated development and test environment for Theme Components inside of the Shopify Theme Editor.
Use the shopify theme component dev [component-name] command inside of a component collection like archetype-themes/reference-components to bootstrap your component development environment.
This command does the following operations:
- Copy the contents of
archetype-themes/explorerrepo into the.devdirectory - Copy setup files located in
components/[component]/setup/[templates|sections|config]into their respective directories in the.devdirectory - Copy component files
snippets|assetsinto their respective directories in the.devdirectory - Runs
shopify theme devon the.devdirectory