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Magento Extensions Development

By : Bouchet
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Magento Extensions Development

By: Bouchet

Overview of this book

Magento has been revealed as the best and the most popular open source e-commerce platform in the world, with about 250k+ online stores. Magento 2 is the most recent version of this awesome toolset: every new and modern development techniques are used to offer a real modular approach and powerful architecture. The book will support you in the writing of innovative and complex extensions. Starting from the beginning, we will cover how to set up a development environment that allows you to be really efficient in your functionality writing, including GIT registering and many other development tools. We then move on to provide a large overview of the best practices to scale your module in a high-load environment. After these foundations, you will see how to use test driven-development (TDD) and unit tests to handle your code. We then build a complex extension together, step by step, and internationally-ready. Next, you will find out how to protect the users’ data. Finally, we will take a look a publishing the extension on the new Magento Connect marketplace and how to protect your intellectual property. After you read this book, you will know everything you need to know to become an invaluable extension editor, whether it is for your customers’ needs or for your own requirements.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Index

Chapter 8. Optimization for Teamwork Development

Teamwork development is a matter of good practice and common sense. Some managers make the mistake of considering developers as a pure resource—a coding robot. It is essential to shape your working process to your team. However, there are some key methods that you cannot skip in your development process and a version control system is one of them.

As we saw in Chapter 1, Introduction to Extension Development, Git is one of the most widely used code management systems.

Git is based on a system of branches; it's a nonlinear development system where each branch is a different state of your code. Thus, the ways of managing branches are numerous and can refer to different models. That's what we will see in this chapter.

Briefly, we'll be looking at:

  • Version control and code management
  • Feature branch workflow
  • Project management methodology
  • Communication with a developer team