Expanse

Added

• New theme architecture built on Liquid Theme Components
• Fine-grained control over how JS loads for the interactive components via Islands architecture. Load JS as it’s needed, load the rest when the page becomes idle.
• Support for JavaScript Import Maps

Changed

• Refactored code into Theme Components found inside the snippets folder
• Refactored JS from single bundles like theme.js and vendor.js into individual ES Modules
• Refactored to use Custom Elements better JS structure, section lifecycle handling, and JS event management
• Refactored Quick Shop and Quick Add components for better loading and functionality

Removed

• Global theme setting for animating page transitions have been removed
• Lazyload images section setting removed from slideshow sections
• Removed a combined 100 lines of repeated swatch logic from recommended products and hotspots sections

Fixes and other improvements

• Various improvements made to improve page load time
• Improved our LCP score by 1.63s
• Image zoom works for right aligned product galleries
• Escape key closes Search when Predictive search is disabled
• Centered logo is correctly positioned on mobile header
• Color scheme textures are working correctly
• Fixed missing translation error for recipient form
• Product thumbnails are visible when set to ‘Below media’
• Fixed issue with opacity for theme modals’ background-colour
• Heading shows correctly for Text columns with icons section
• Fixed issues with inventory status not showing correctly for variants and incorporated merchant feedback to improve the overall logic

Added

• Added support for recipient fields on gift card products
• Added support for app blocks to more sections
• Added support for Follow on Shop button

Changed

• Swatch size setting has been moved under the Products heading within the global theme settings

Fixes and improvements

• Inventory transfer notice is better displayed on product pages
• Images centered in the rich text editor now also show as centered in the storefront
• Global setting for adjusting the stroke weight of icons now works as intended
• Newsletter form requires email input to be filled out before it is submitted
• Images have a quicker fade-in effect
• Improved behaviour for predictive search experience
• Improved layout for when text direction is set to right-to-left in global theme settings

Fixes and improvements

• Products returned in search results without images will no longer produce a liquid error
• Text columns with icons section now includes translations for its settings
• Image comparison arrows show up correctly on iOS
• Predictive search updated to use Locale-aware URLs
• Autofocus removed from search input so that the 'skip to maintain content' link is accessible
• Opacity of img tags is no longer set to zero by default
• Improved layout of image and text section