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Magento 2 Development Essentials

By : J Miguel
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Magento 2 Development Essentials

Magento 2 Development Essentials

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By: J Miguel

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Magento is the e-commerce software and platform trusted by the world's leading brands. Used by thousands of merchants for their transactions worth billions, it provides the flexibility to customize the content and functionality of your website. By strengthening your fundamentals in Magento development, you can develop the best solutions and take advantage of the growing market. This fast-paced tutorial will provide you with skills you need to successfully create themes, extensions, and solutions to Magento 2 projects. This book begins by setting up Magento 2 before gradually moving onto setting the basic options of the Sell System. You will take advantage of Search Engine Optimization aspects, create design and customize theme layout, develop new extensions, and adjust the Magento System to achieve great performance. By sequentially working through the steps in each chapter, you will quickly explore all the features of Magento 2 to create a great solution. With ample examples and a practical approach, this book will ensure your success with this astonishing e-commerce management system.
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Magento theme inheritance


The frontend of Magento allows designers to create new themes based on the basic blank theme, reusing the main code without changing its structure. The fallback system is a theme's inheritance mechanism and allows developers to create only the files that are necessary for customization.

The Luma theme, for example, uses the fallback system by inheriting the blank theme basic structure. The Luma theme parent is declared in its theme.xml file as follows:

<theme xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:Config/etc/theme.xsd">
    <title>Magento Luma</title>
    <parent>Magento/blank</parent>
    <media>
        <preview_image>media/preview.jpg</preview_image>
    </media>
</theme>

Inheritance works similar to an override system. You can create new themes using the existent ones (parents) and by replacing (that is, overriding) an existing file with...

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