How to set up a shopify local development environment. Shopify is an interesting platform – they allow you to create and edit your own tempaltes (using liquid) but there isnt a way to run an instance locally, like you would for wordpress for example. As a developer, you want to be able to test out your code before committing it and launching to a live running site – so how do you set up a workflow which allows you to edit and test your code before sending to the live website?