Gem

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
• New overrides stylesheet for customizing the default styles of components
• Adds support for send on field on gift card recipient form

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
• Changed years offered in countdown timer settings
• Updated translation files to match new structure found in https://github.com/archetype-themes/locales

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
• Removed force image size setting from footer promotions
• Sunset references to Shopify Product Reviews app in accordance to end-of-support announcement (https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/products/product-reviews/migrate)

Fixes and other improvements

• Various improvements made to improve page load time
• 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
• Letter spacing typo in typography settings
• Fixed padding issue in predictive search results
• Fixed duplicate buttons on product page
• Cart recommendations products within cart drawer are now showing quick add and quick view buttons
• Fixed some shopify theme check linting warnings
• Fixed issue where specific product tile styles were causing a horizontal scrollbar to appear. Uncovered a larger issue with our styles and variables.
• Fixed issue with price range filter initializing too many times on collection page
• Fixed issue for CSS variables and negative margins on product grid item
• Fixed issue for image variant bug
• Fixed issue for Testimonials section where images would sometimes not show and their alignment was incorrect when text was set to right aligned
• Fixed issue for excess quantity when set to cart page type
• Fixed issue with promo grid images not showing
• Fixed issue with default state of countdown timer
• Fixed issue with predictive search pricing and vendor
• Fixed how triggers for size chart and quick shop are initialized
• Sets min-width for variant dropdowns

Added

• Initial launch of Gem