ThemeKit | macOS | Theme library

So while using "themekit" in vs code terminal, I get the following message:

"This is the live theme on my-store. If you wish to make changes to it, then you will have to pass the --allow-live flag"

and to resolve it, I add --allow-live flag to the command and it works fine.(as described in the other answer on stack overflow)

BUT, while it did resolve the issue, everytime I try to use theme watch or theme deploy, it repeatedly asks me to use the --allow-live flag.

While researching themekit on google, youtube and other tutorials, I saw that it works fine for other developers even if they don't use --allow-live.

I read the following shopify documentation as well- https://www.shopify.com/partners/blog/checksums

How is "theme watch --allow-live" different from the "theme watch" command, and how do I make sure that everytime I use themekit, it doesn't ask me to add the flag. Is there a way by which it automatically allows live changes without manually adding the flag everytime I try using themekit.

I'm following instructions on shopify developers to create a 'How did you hear about us form field' for my website. FYI I am using safari on a Mac. Everything was working fine until I got to the step of 'Add theme settings for configuration.' In the Config. directory of settings_schema-json, the current code (below) already exists:

I am trying to use the ipapi API (https://ipapi.com/documentation) to get the geolocation data of users and I have an API key which I will need to use to make the API call to get the JSON results.

In nodejs, we can use .env to store secret keys and access them with process.env.KEY_NAME. The same goes for servers such as Heroku and AWS, where we can store an API keys as config vars.

But for shopify, I can't seem to find out where to store secret API keys.

I have read some examples:

How to define global variables in Liquid? (this doesn't seem like the right thing to do as I want to store it as a secret and access it from another file).

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/config-vars (only for themekit/slate development).

Is it safe to just create another .liquid file and place all my secret keys there and just call it from another file?

Would appreciate if someone could point me the right direction.

Thank you!

I'm new in Shopify. I try many script today but no success. I haven't found any relevant tutorial or documentation how to create mini cart to add product line items on click variant by AJAX. I want to click product a variant and it will add product min cart details in popup [Note: it's not cart page.].

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I'm starting to code some in-browser automated tests for our Shopify store, and I noticed that I've inadvertantly caused a massive traffic spike to our store during the time I was developing.

Is there a way to make a browser visit not count on Shopify analytics, like a "nostats" queryparam or something? I may eventually end up with dozens of tests running maybe a dozen times a day, and that'll make a significant difference to our analytics.

Right now I'm testing against a previewed theme deployed with themekit, so I'm not testing against the live theme.

I could create a dev store and copy over all our products/collections/etc, but I'd really rather test as close to the live store as possible. If that's stupid (or if there's a really easy way to make my dev store mirror my live store), let me know.

I'm totally new with Shopify, im trying to Configure an existing theme and fallow the full process form the guideline here (https://shopify.github.io/themekit/) but when I try to run the command theme download it shows me the error requested theme was not found though I setup Private apps and configure everything so is there anything that I missed out of the box.

I have never worked with shopify before but I have experience with other CMS's.

I recently got a client with a website already live and with some quick research, I see that I need to create a private app and manage the site with themekit.

What I need help with is how to properly set up a staging/dev environment to view the changes I make before pushing the changes into production.

Thanks!