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What is Liquid?

It is an open-source template language written in Ruby. It is the backbone of Shopify themes and is used to load dynamic content on storefronts. It is safe, customer facing template language for flexible web apps.
Liquid is a tool in the Templating Languages & Extensions category of a tech stack.
Liquid is an open source tool with 11.2K GitHub stars and 1.4K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Liquid's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Liquid?

Companies
42 companies reportedly use Liquid in their tech stacks, including all, Kajabi, and Storyblok.

Developers
109 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Liquid.

Liquid Integrations

Ruby, Zendesk, Jekyll, Fedora, and Drip are some of the popular tools that integrate with Liquid. Here's a list of all 9 tools that integrate with Liquid.

Liquid's Features

  • Render templates directly from the database
  • Smarty (PHP) style template engines
  • Template engine which does HTML just as well as emails
  • Allow your users to edit the appearance of your application but don't want them to run insecure code on your server

Liquid Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Liquid?
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
HTML5
HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.
PHP
Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
See all alternatives

Liquid's Followers
123 developers follow Liquid to keep up with related blogs and decisions.