[Performance] Optimize Liquid template rendering

[gonzaloriestra]

Why is this change needed?

Template rendering with Liquid is an expensive operation. Currently, renderLiquidTemplate creates a new instance of the Liquid engine on every call, which involves significant overhead (compiling regexes, setting up default tags/filters). Additionally, many strings passed to this function are actually static and don't contain any Liquid tags, yet they still go through the full parsing and rendering pipeline.

How to test your changes?

You can verify that Liquid rendering still works correctly by running a command that uses templates, such as creating a new app or extension from a template:
shopify app init --path ./my-app --template node

Duplicate check

I ran git log --grep="\[Performance\]" --pretty=format:"%h %s" -n 50 and git log --grep="Liquid" -n 50 to ensure this optimization hasn't been attempted. No similar PRs were found.

Performance Impact

Benchmark results on 1000 iterations:

• Static string rendering: ~0.4251ms -> ~0.0011ms (~386x faster)
• Template string rendering: ~0.2401ms -> ~0.0950ms (~2.5x faster)

The improvement comes from:

1. Reusing a singleton Liquid engine instance.
2. Short-circuiting the rendering for strings without {{ or {% delimiters.

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