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May 21, 2025

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* Themes

# Skeleton theme is now available

[Skeleton theme](https://github.com/Shopify/skeleton-theme) is now available: a minimal, carefully structured Shopify theme designed to help you quickly get started. Built with modularity, maintainability, and Shopify's best practices in mind.

Key features:

* **Minimal and modular:** A clean, flexible starting point.
* **Best practices built-in:** Performant and easy to maintain.
* **Developer-focused:** Easy to extend and customize.

Get started by visiting the [Skeleton theme repository](https://github.com/Shopify/skeleton-theme) or by running `shopify theme init` from your command line.