How can I integrate react with app theme extension

Technical Q&A
1

How to integrate React with a Shopify App Theme Extension?

What should be the appropriate folder structure and the method for connecting Shopify’s Liquid templates with React components?

2

Hello, have you created an extension? Could you please explain what you want to integrate with the Shopify app theme extension?

3

We have created a theme app extension. But we are not able to:

  1. Write react code in theme app extension

  2. Connect shopify liquid to react

  3. Create the right folder structure that’s needed to use react in app extension

4

Here is quick idea, not a full code.

Create a folder ‘front-app’ and place all your react app code here.
And add

in liquid teamplate, where we need to render the componenets

front-app/index.js file will be like

import App from './app';
const element = document.getElementById("react-render")
render(
        

And in react config, set the output path to theme extension assets folder

```javascript
output: {
    filename: '[name].js',
    chunkFilename: '[name].js',
    path: path.resolve(__dirname, '../extensions/extension-folder/assets'),
  },

Trust this will help

5

We tried this approach but it did not work for us. Being new to Shopify we are kind of stuck. Is it possible for you to share some complete working code without disclosing any confidential stuff?

I am not sure if we will be able to make it work or move to other ecommerce platform as this store is extremely important for us.

6

Hey did you run this command?

npm run shopify app generate extension