I decided to not use ScriptTags for adding our app’s components to vintage themes. However now I am facing the issue, that I can not verify if a theme has the app embed block enabled or not. Some themes (e.g. Supply) has a blocks property in the config/settings_data.json, where all the activated ap…

I am facing a similar issue. I am replacing a small scripttag script with an app embed block that serves the same purpose. My app is using it to analyze page views, so nothing theme related is being done. After app install, I need to redirect the user to the settings part of the theme, where the us…

Have you guys figured this out?

@Virtooal , @hrstrand , @johnyjoe Untested spitballs for app-blocks If I can get time I’ll try it with the sample review app to vet this and if works maybe push it as a branch /shrug. Not clear if bubbling , or if block restrictions like not accessing section liquid objects , gets in the way of an…

@PaulNewton @Virtooal @johnyjoe I found a somewhat hacky solution for this. On the server side, I do a fetch request of the front page of the shop. Currently, the app embed block javascript file has the name you provide in the app-embed.liquid file : {% schema %} { “name”: “x”, “target”: “bo…

Unfortunately, this will not work for password-protected stores.

Is it true that the settings_data.json file may not output the blocks property depending on the theme? I thought it was just generated from the settings_schema.json and if there were no blocks in there it meant that none have been enabled yet. I was hoping that this work: const hasEmbedEnabled = a…

@Virtooal can you give me an example of a theme where the settings_data.json approach doesn’t work? (A free one would be great, if possible).

Form my testing i have not found any themes that don’t add the app embeds to the settings_data.json. Has anyone a counter example?

Detecting enabled app embed block in vintage themes

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