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This document provides a set of best practices and a clear workflow for Boost Commerce clients who wish to perform self-customization on their Shopify theme integration with Boost AI Search…

Client Self‑customization Guidelines

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Developer guidance for performance, theme support, and implementation details.

Technical Guidelines

Theme Setup

For dev - What is Theme Setup? (App Lib V2)

For dev - Advanced Definition of Theme Setup (App Lib V2)

Definition

For dev - Manual Setup Instruction for any theme (App Lib V2)

For dev - How to enable App Blocks in Theme App Extension

For dev - Advanced Setup (Match theme's collection page layout) (App Lib V2)

For dev - Basic setup using Boost's collection page layout (App Lib V2)

Manual Setup

Here is the list of files that Boost AI Search & Discovery app installs into your theme, and an explanation of what they do.

For dev - List of files installed into a theme (App Lib V2)

For dev - How Theme Setup works (App Lib V2)

How Theme Setup Works

For dev - Product List Component (App Lib V2)

For dev - Pagination Component (App Lib V2)

For dev - How to build Filter on Collection/Search page (App Lib V2)

For dev - Product Sorting Component (App Lib V2)

For dev - Display Type Component (App Lib V2)

For dev - How to build Instant Search (App Lib V2)

To Build Product-Related Components

App Customization

Find answers to some common questions about Customizations.

For Dev - Customizations FAQs (App Lib V2)

For Dev - Customization overview (App Lib V2)

Overview

For Dev - App Customization (App Lib V3)

For Dev - How to customize product item on collection/search page after filtering (App Lib V2)

For Dev - Product List Customization (App Lib V2)

For Dev - Display Type Customization (App Lib V2)

For Dev - Pagination Customization (App Lib V2)

For Dev - Product Sorting Customization (App Lib V2)

Product-Related Elements

For Dev - Callbacks after rendering products on collection/search page (App Lib V2)

For dev - How to add Pagination amount (App Lib V2)

For Dev - How to change the Mobile breakpoint for displaying the filter (App Lib V2)

For Dev - How to Shorten URL (App Lib V2)

For dev - Troubleshoot an issue of Translate My Store (App Lib V2)

For dev - Troubleshoot an issue of Translation Lab (App Lib V2)

Extra Elements or Functions

In this article, we'll guide you through how Boost AI Search & Discovery pulls data and tracks user events through the Analytics feature.

(For dev) How to Pull Data and Track Events for Analytics in Boost AI Search & Discovery

Filter and Search API

For dev - Product Properties (App Lib V2)

For dev - Filter Tree Option Properties (App Lib V2)

For dev - App Lib V2 Customization

Here is the JS Docs, an auto-generated document from comments in the app's source code.

For dev - App JS Doc (App Lib V2)

An overview of app lib v2 component, component tree, and service.

For dev - App Lib V2 Overview

This is a list of all available settings in app lib v2.

For dev - App Lib V2 Settings

For dev - App Lib V2 Component Tree

For dev - List of third party libraries that the app uses (App Lib V2)

App Structure

For dev - Filter Option Component

For dev - Instant Search Result Component (App Lib V2)

For dev - Instant Search Input Component (App Lib V2)

For dev - Filter Tree Component (App Lib V2)

For dev - Filter Tree Mobile Component

For dev - Filter Option Item Component

App Component

For dev - Boost AI Search & Discovery API

For dev - Instant Search API

For dev - API FAQs

In this article, we want to introduce our Recommendation API and what you can do with it.

For dev - Recommendation API

Manual Setup Instruction for any theme (App Lib V1)

How to customize product item on collection page (App Lib v1)

How to change the Mobile breakpoint for displaying the filter (App Lib V1)

App Lib V1

Create a custom design with text, images, and links

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