Theme Check ✅ - A linter for Themes

Think RuboCop, or eslint, but for Shopify themes.

Theme Check is a command line tool that helps you follow Shopify Themes & Liquid best practices by analyzing the Liquid & JSON inside your theme.

Theme Check is also available inside some code editors.

Disclaimer: This tool is not supported as part of the Partners program.

Supported Checks

Theme Check currently checks for the following:

✅ Liquid syntax errors
✅ JSON syntax errors
✅ Missing snippet & section templates
✅ Unused {% assign ... %}
✅ Unused snippet templates
✅ Template length
✅ Deprecated tags
✅ Unknown tags
✅ Unknown filters
✅ Missing {{ content_for_* }} in theme.liquid
✅ Excessive nesting of snippets
✅ Missing or extra spaces inside {% ... %} and {{ ... }}
✅ Missing default locale file
✅ Unmatching translation keys in locale files
✅ Using unknown translation keys in {{ 'missing_key' | t }}
✅ Using several {% ... %} instead of {% liquid ... %}
✅ Undefined objects

And many more to come! Suggestions welcome (create an issue).

Installation

gem install theme-check

Usage

theme-check /path/to/your/theme

# or from /path/to/your/theme
theme-check

Run theme-check --help to get full usage.

Configuration

Add a .theme-check.yml file at the root of your theme to configure:

# If your theme is not using the supported directory structure, provide the root path
# where to find the `templates/`, `sections/`, `snippets/` directories as they would
# be uploaded to Shopify.
root: dist

# Disable some checks
TemplateLength:
  enabled: false
  # Or configure options
  max_length: 300

See config/default.yml for available options & defaults.