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Liquid is an extraction from the e-commerce system Shopify. Shopify powers many thousands of e-commerce stores which all call for unique designs. For this we developed Liquid which allows our customers complete design freedom while maintaining the integrity of our servers.
Liquid has been in production use since June 2006 and is now used by many other hosted web applications.
It was developed for usage in Ruby on Rails web applications and integrates seamlessly as a plugin but it also works excellently as a stand alone library.
Liquid is an open-source, Ruby-based template language created by Shopify. It is the backbone of Shopify themes and is used to load dynamic content on storefronts.
Liquid uses a combination of tags, objects, and filters to load dynamic content. They are used inside Liquid template files, which are a group of files that make up a theme. For more information on the available templates, please see Theme Development.
Tags
Tags make up the programming logic that tells templates what to do.
{% raw %} {% if user.name == 'elvis' %} Hey Elvis {% endif %} {% endraw %}
Filters
Filters are used to modify the output of strings, numbers, variables, and objects.
{% raw %} {{ 'sales' | append: '.jpg' }} {% endraw %}