How to get a shopify blank/naked theme

Shopify Discussion
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Hi,

How do I get a blank/naked Shopify theme for my development practice? Or rather, how do I install the “section” file code on my theme as it’s missing among the other files?

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For blank themes you can use dawn, as dawn is normally the base theme used for development.

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Yea, I would have loved to use the Dawn theme, but it has got a lot of HTML code so I just want a blank theme with no code in it.

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I don’t think there’s any(I stand to be corrected). You best bet would be to create it yourself. Look at the dawn theme folder and code structure and make your blank theme according to that. Afterwards you can upload the theme to your shopify store and it should work.

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Thank you Lunaworks, this is helpful.

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Here you go: https://github.com/Shopify/skeleton-theme

Slate is no longer supported and you’ll have to update the theme to 2.0, but if you’re looking for something bare bones it’s probably easier than picking apart Dawn.

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Hey there so Ive found a couple of themes you can use if you want to avoid dawn.

  1. https://github.com/odestry/adastra
  2. https://github.com/uicrooks/shopify-foundation-theme
  3. https://github.com/james0r/slayed (Come with AlpineJS)