# Shopify/slate

Slate is a toolkit for developing Shopify themes. It's designed to assist your workflow and speed up the process of developing, testing, and deploying themes.

Repository: https://github.com/Shopify/slate
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/shopify-slate
Homepage: https://shopify.github.io/slate
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: themes, slate
Archived: true
Last push: 2021-09-27T16:43:25+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3663, "days_push": 1801, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1284, forks 355 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:14.583230+00:00)

## What it is
Slate is a JavaScript-based toolkit for developing, testing, and deploying Shopify themes, providing an opinionated build workflow on top of Theme Kit. It was officially deprecated by Shopify in 2021 in favor of Shopify CLI and related tools.

## Use cases
- build shopify themes with a local dev workflow
- deploy shopify theme changes to a store
- scaffold a new shopify theme project
- set up a build pipeline for liquid themes
- maintain a legacy shopify theme built with slate

## When to choose
- maintaining an existing Shopify theme already built with Slate
- working on a legacy project that depends on Slate's build pipeline
- forking the toolkit for a custom theme workflow

## When to avoid
- starting any new Shopify theme project
- you want local theme development with live preview
- you need supported tooling - use Shopify CLI instead
- you develop on Windows

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: abandoned
- function: build-tool, developer-tools, deployment, templating
- domain: web-development, e-commerce, developer-tools, frontend
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: shopify, shopify-themes, theme-development, archived, themekit, scaffolding, nodejs

## Member repositories
- Shopify/slate (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:14.583230+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:56:43.173414+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Shopify/slate (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:14.583230+00:00, sha ffca19b0a005)
  - homepage: https://shopify.github.io/slate (fetched 2026-08-29T12:12:35.062417+00:00, sha 7bb9536ed681)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.