PrestaShop Modern Starter Theme

Table of Contents

• About the Theme
  • Online demo
  • Performance
• Getting Started
  • Prerequisites
  • Support table
  • Installation
• Usage
  • Working with webpack
  • Working with npm/yarn
  • Smarty functions
• Support project
• Contribution

About The Theme

Modern prestashop starter theme is made with modern tools such as webpack 5.53, webpack dev server with HMR 🔥🔥 and latest bootstrap 4.6. This theme was created to deliver starter theme with latest developers tools and frameworks. You are able to create enterprise level prestashop theme that is easy to maintain. Made for developers, if you are merchant don't download it!

List of changes compared to classic theme:

1. Bootstrap updated to 4.6 from 4.0.0-alpha.5 - backwards compatibility included.
2. Updated webpack to 4.46 from 2.2.1 with whole new webpack config.
3. Removed tether - not used anymore with bootstrap 4.6 - popper.js added.
4. Removed velocity-animate, jquery.scrollbox.js and jquery-touchswipe - replaced with swiper.
5. Removed bootstrap-filestyle.js - replaced with bootstrap custom file input
6. Removed jquery.ui from ps_searchbar, new module is_searchbar included.
7. Removed jquery.ui from ps_facetedsearch - replaced with nouislider. (ps_facetedsearch assets unregistered in is_themecore module).
8. Added jquery-nice-select to make selects looks better.

Main features:

1. Webpack config working properly with webpack dev server and HMR. Watcher also observe changes on .tpl templates files and module .css/.js/.tpl files and make page full reload. You don't need to refresh your webpage anymore to inspect results.
2. Module is_themecore adds structured data with proper JSON-LD format for WebPage, Product, Organization and BreadcrumbList. Also support OpenGraph and Twitter:card. Module add missing breadcrumbs for pages: cart, 404, stores, sitemap.
3. Dynamic importing boostrap components. You are able to load .js/.css file dynamicly with DynamicImportHandler class. There is no docs yet, example of use available in _dev/js/components/dynamic-bootstrap-components.js.
4. Lazyload for images added.
5. Modified version of ps_imageslider included. You are able to upload different images for mobile and desktop.
6. Multiple entry point for webpack, files separated per view. There are 4 output js/css files theme, product, checkout, listing and you are able to add more with ease. If you need rich cms pages with a lot of styles included in it. You don't have to include them everywhere with theme output file. You are able to create another entry e.g. cms and just include it in ThemeAssets class in module is_themecore that handle theme assets.
7. List/grid listing display. You are able to choose default listing display type. With only few lines of .js code. All template changes are handle in .tpl file. It is also easy to add another list type.
8. Specific .scss file structure that help you maintain your code.
9. Automatic generated preload links for theme fonts. You don't have to care about manually preloading fonts inside template. Webpack generates .html file that is included inside head. Fonts fileNames are contentHashed so client side caching problems after fonts changes are resolved (especially useful for icomoon generated icon fonts.).
10. High dpi images support added. With just simple call of smarty function generateImageSources you are able to handle whole image sources logic - srcset for high dpi images option enabled.

Online demo

Want to check it online in action before downloading? Demo available here.
Demo hosted by our technical partner Wrapnet.

Performance

Performance results based on PageSpeed Insights:

Desktop

Mobile

Getting started

Prerequisites

Modules required

• is_imageslider
• is_searchbar
• is_shoppingcart
• is_themecore

System requirements:

• Prestashop requirements,
• vhost setup, to work with starter theme it is required to setup your shop domain with vhost e.g. starter.test,
• starter tested only on macOS, create an issue if it isn't working with your system.

Support table

Starter version	PS version	node version
v 1.X	1.7.7.X	>= 10
v 2.X	1.7.8.X	>= 14

Installation

1. Go to releases and download latest version starter.zip file not source code.

2. Download required modules and place them into {shop_dir}/modules/ folder. Make sure that folder name of module don't contain branch name.

3. Unzip theme file and place it inside {shop_dir}/themes/.

4. If you want to change theme name unzip file. Change folder name e.g. your-theme-name then go to config/theme.yml and change:

name: starter
display_name: display

to:

name: your-theme-name
display_name: my theme display name

Name in theme.yml must be equal folder name.

5. If you changed theme name you have to go to is_themecore module. Find hookActionFrontControllerSetMedia method and change:

$themeAssetsObject  = new ThemeAssets($pageName, 'starter', $this->context);

to:

$themeAssetsObject  = new ThemeAssets($pageName, 'your-theme-name', $this->context);

6. Open in terminal directory your-theme-name/_dev and run:

• for npm :

npm install

• for yarn :

yarn install

7. Go to your-theme-name/_dev/webpack and find .env-example. Copy file and rename it with .env. Replace example value with proper one based on your setup.

8. Now try to run:

• for npm :

npm run build

• for yarn :

yarn build

9. Go in BO to Design->Theme & Logo and turn on theme. Now starter should be displayed correctly in FO and modules should be installed.

10. Now try to run:

• for npm :

npm run dev

• for yarn :

yarn dev

If your .env file is correctly setup. Your browser will open FO of your store.

Usage

Working with webpack

Webpack config is available in _dev/webpack folder. Files are structured by their functions:

file	description
webpack.vars.js	Webpack dev server config that comes from .env file and entry point, output file setup. To add another entry point just add another element to entriesArray, remember to add files /js/{entry_name}.js and /css/{entry_name}.scss.
webpack.parts.js	Contains loaders and plugins setup.
webpack.commons.js	Config that runs on both production and development.
webpack.development.js	Config that runs on development.
webpack.production.js	Config that runs on production.
purge-safelist.js	Starter theme comes with support for purgecss, but safelist is not included.

Working with npm/yarn

script	description
build	Script run production config with assets optimization and chunks names hashing.
build-purge	Script run production config with assets optimization, chunks hashing also runs purgecss to remove not used styles. Not recomended to use yet, create safelist before use.
watch	watch is an alias for npm run dev. Assets optimization not included.
dev	Script that run webpack dev server that watch for changes in files and loading them w/o page reload. Script will open your store in browser with port in url, you have to remove it and refresh page. Assets optimization not included.
scss-fix	Script that run stylelint and fix minor issues in code.
eslint-fix	Script that run eslint and fix minor issues in code.

Smarty functions

GenerateImagesSources

Function created to simplify adding images src with support for high DPI images.

parameter	required	description
image	true	Parameter must be a product image array for example $product.default_image.
size	true	Size of image defined in theme.yml file for example home_default.
lazyload	false	Optional parameter, default value is equal true. If lazyload is set to true it replace image src parameter to data-src (or srcset if high DPI images are turned on). To lazyload working properly it is required to add lazyload class to that img.

Example of usage:

  <img
    class="rounded img-fluid lazyload"
    {generateImagesSources image=$product.default_image size='home_default' lazyload=true}
    width="{$product.default_image.bySize.home_default.width}"
    height="{$product.default_image.bySize.home_default.height}"
    loading="lazy"
    />

It will output:

  <img
    class="img-fluid rounded lazyload"
    data-srcset="http://domain.com/{id}-home_default/{product_name}.jpg,
                http://domain.com/{id}-home_default2x/{product_name}.jpg 2x"
    src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' width='250' height='250' viewBox='0 0 1 1'%3E%3C/svg%3E"
    width="250"
    height="250"
    loading="lazy"
    />

generateImageSvgPlaceholder

Function created to return simple svg placeholder with given sizes.

parameter	required	description
width	true	Width of an image.
height	true	Height of an image.

Example of usage:

  <img
     src="{generateImageSvgPlaceholder width=100 height=150}"
    />

It will output:

    <img
      src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' width='100' height='150' viewBox='0 0 1 1'%3E%3C/svg%3E"
    />

Support project

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Contribution

Any kind of contribution is welcome. Make pull request on develop branch but make sure to create an issue before submitting.