[Performance] Optimize Liquid template rendering

[gonzaloriestra]

WHY are these changes introduced?

The renderLiquidTemplate function in @shopify/cli-kit was creating a new Liquid instance on every invocation, which is expensive due to engine initialization. It also parsed and rendered every string regardless of whether it contained actual Liquid templates.

WHAT is this pull request doing?

• Implements a shared, lazy-initialized Liquid engine instance.
• Adds a short-circuit check using includes to skip parsing/rendering for strings without {{ or {%.

Performance Impact (1000 iterations):

• Static strings: 254ms → 0.5ms (~500x improvement)
• Small templates: 252ms → 82ms (~3x improvement)

How to test your changes?

Verify that Liquid rendering still works correctly by running the unit tests:
pnpm --filter @shopify/cli-kit vitest run src/public/node/liquid.test.ts

Duplicate check

Query ran: git log --all --oneline --grep="[Performance]"
Closest prior PRs considered:

1. 694fcd735 [Performance] Optimize directory globbing with cwd: Optimized glob usage in recursiveLiquidTemplateCopy but did not touch the core renderLiquidTemplate engine logic.
2. 357eaf03a [Performance] Optimize copyDirectoryContents: Focused on filesystem performance rather than template rendering.

Checklist

• I've considered possible cross-platform impacts (Mac, Linux, Windows)
• I've considered possible documentation changes
• I've considered analytics changes to measure impact
• The change is user-facing — I've identified the correct bump type (patch) and added a changeset.

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