Hi, I’m developing a Shopify theme on local using shopify theme serve. When I tried to edit the file app.js.liquid, the theme CLI keep throwing the error Cannot overwrite generated asset ‘assets/app.js’. And the change is not applied. I found some questions with answers on the forum but seem like …

Hello Duandz. Hope you resolved the issue. But if you have not we have encountered the same error recently with different asset type. Somehow when we run the shopify theme serve something occurs that duplicates the file on the server. So if you do Shopify theme pull and pull your development theme l…

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duandz November 2, 2021, 2:20am 3

Hi @GoranHorvat , thank you very much. Deleting the app.js file does help. Everything is working fine now. Cheer.

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