Migrate from Theme Kit

Shopify CLI is the recommended and officially supported tool for developing Themes and creating CI/CD workflows.

This guide shows how to achieve equivalent flows with the new version of the CLI.

Equivalent commands

Theme Kit Command	Shopify CLI Equivalent	Objective
theme deploy	shopify theme push	Deploy a local (to the CLI) version of the Theme in the current working directory to a remote store.
theme new	shopify theme init	Scaffold a new theme. In the case of the CLI it clones Dawn to be used as a reference Theme. Alternatively, it's possible to simply clone Dawn git clone git@github.com:Shopify/dawn.git and use it with the CLI.
theme download	shopify theme pull	Download your remote theme files.
theme watch & theme open	shopify theme serve	Start a theme server to locally preview changes with CSS & Section hot reload enabled
-	shopify theme check	Run the Theme Check linter on your theme codebase.
-	shopify theme publish	Set a remote theme as the live theme.
-	shopify theme package	Pack your Theme as a zip file ready for distribution and submission to the Theme Store.
theme remove	shopify theme delete	Theme kit removes files from the Theme whereas Shopify CLI will remotely destroy the specified theme.