JSON Template update deletes section saved data

[PavelEpave]

Hi,

I use JSON templating and every time I update for example index.json, adding a section or modifying the order of the section, all the data that I had on the online store saved for this template is reset.

Technically it means I lose all my home page data every time I update index.json, and I have to go to the dashboard and redo all the selection manually.

Is it normal behaviour ? Because it means that this website cannot go to production like this : any change to the templating would reset all the website's data...

[shellbryson]

This just became an enormous issue for me too, for a site we're launching TOMORROW. Nightmare. We're deploying dozens of times tonight as we get a site ready to roll, and every time, the data is reset.

[justinhandley]

I'm also running into this and am looking for answers - did you ever figure out if there is a way around this?

[PavelEpave · Accepted solution]

When updating you JSON template in the dashboard, it saves the data and updates you JSON data. So when you push from local files you erase those changes : I stoped losing my work when I linked my repository and pulled before making any changes.

[shellbryson]

We changed our deploys so that, by default, the JSON files are ignored. We pull/push, too, if we need to change the JSON templates, but these files rarely need to be touched in day-to-day development. We use the Shopify CLI in our tooling, and it's easy enough to set up exceptions.