Shopify Theme Framework (AKA Concrete)

The original framework for building native Shopify themes.

The Shopify Theme Framework has been used to build stores for some of the most well known brands in the world. Including;

What happened to 'Concrete'?

'Concrete' was a version of the long running Shopify Theme Framework, built on the now redundant Shopify Slate.

The final version of 'Concrete' is considered v4 of the Shopify Theme Framework. You can find the legacy v4 code in this release.

The Shopify Theme Framework was created in 2013, and based on the Foundation front-end framework.

At that point there were no public frameworks available for building Shopify themes. You can find the original project here.

v1 ('Forest') was a highly modified variation of Shopify's abandoned Timber theme framework.

Version 2 through 4 (known as 'Concrete') started life as a standalone framework and adopted Slate when released.

Version 5 was written from the ground up, and utlize Shopify CLI and Parcel bundler for hyper efficient Shopify theme development.

We are working toward releasing a public version of version 6.