With the goal of displaying a flexible product list, the shelf and shelf.relatedProducts blocks are deprecated and now configured using the Product Summary List, the Product Summary Shelf, and the Slider Layout blocks. To learn how to configure it, please refer to Building a Shelf.

The Shelf app displays a list of products on your store pages, helping you build your shop window and work on your visual merchandising.

1. Add the shelf app to your theme dependencies in the manifest.json file:

Now, you can use all the blocks exported by the shelf app. See the full list below:

Block name	Description
shelf	Renders a list of products in the store home page.
shelf.relatedProducts	Renders a list of related products in the product details page.

2. Declare the shelf.relatedProduct in the product template (store.product) using its props. For example:

Warning

Note that for hiding unavailable/out-of-stock items, there are 2 different props: hideUnavailableItems and hideOutOfStockItems. They do the same thing, but each is used by a different component: Shelf and RelatedProducts, respectively.

Prop name	Type	Description	Default value
category	String	The category ID
collection	String	The collection ID
orderBy	Enum	OrderByTopSaleDESC, OrderByPriceDESC, OrderByPriceASC, OrderByNameASC, OrderByNameDESC, OrderByReleaseDateDESC, OrderByBestDiscountDESC
hideUnavailableItems	Boolean	Whether out of stock items should be hidden (true) or not (false)	false
paginationDotsVisibility	Enum	visible, hidden, mobileOnly, desktopOnly
productList	ProductListSchema	Product list schema. See ProductListSchema	-
trackingId	String	Name to show in the Google Analytics. If nothing is passed it will use the name of the block instead
maxItems	Number	Max items

Prop name	Type	Description	Default value
recommendation	enum	Type of recommendations that will be displayed on the shelf. Possible values: similars, suggestions, and accessories (these depend on the product information given in the Admin Catalog); and view, buy, and viewandBought (these are automatically generated according to the activity of the store).	similars
groupBy	enum	Defines if you are ot nog going to group your recommendations by: PRODUCT (only display individual products and not SKUs, limited by 12 products) or NONE (if you want to display all registered SKUs, limited by 50 products).	PRODUCT
hideOutOfStockItems	boolean	Whether out of stock items should be hidden: (true) or (false).	false
productList	ProductListSchema	Product list schema. See ProductListSchema.	-

ProductListSchema:

Prop name	Type	Description	Default value
maxItems	number	Maximum number of items to be displayed on the related product shelf.	10
scroll	enum	Slide transition scroll type. Possible values: BY_PAGE, and ONE_BY_ONE.	BY_PAGE
arrows	boolean	Whether the arrows should be displayed on the shelf (true) or not (false).	true
showTitle	boolean	Whether a title should be displayed on the product-related shelf (true) or not (false).	true
titleText	string	Related product shelf title.	null
gap	enum	Space between items being displayed. Possible values are: ph0, ph3,ph5, and ph7.	ph3
minItemsPerPage	number	Minimum number of items per shelf slides. This prop defines how many items will be displayed on the related product shelf, even in the smallest screen size. Its value can be a float, which means that you can choose a multiple of 0.5 to indicate that you want to show a peek of the next slide on the shelf.	1
itemsPerPage	number	Maximum number of items per shelf slides. This prop defines how many items will be displayed on the related product shelf, even in the largest screen size. Its value can be a float, which means that you can choose a multiple of 0.5 to indicate that you want to show a peek of the next slide on the shelf.	5
summary	object	Schema declaring the desired related product shelf items. This prop object must contain the product-summary.shelf block props.	undefined

To apply CSS customizations to this and other blocks, follow the instructions in Using CSS Handles for store customization.

CSS Handles
relatedProducts

The CSS Handles list above refers to the shelf.relatedProducts block. Since the shelf block is deprecated, your shelf customization must be done using the CSS Handles available for the Product Summary List, the Product Summary Shelf, and the Slider Layout blocks.