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Magento 2 Development Essentials

By : Fernando J Miguel
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Magento 2 Development Essentials

By: Fernando J Miguel

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Magento 2 Development Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


Now, you have all the basic concepts to create a custom theme for Magento and all the information to think in terms of the Magento structure when an idea for your new design comes to mind.

In this chapter, you learned the basic concepts of Magento 2.0 themes, how theme inheritance (that is, the fallback system) works, and which directories Magento uses to create its themes according to the admin area configurations. Finally, you created your own basic theme with these examples.

However, what about creating a quality theme? Is it possible with the knowledge acquired in this chapter? Of course! We will go to the next level in the next chapter and create a responsive theme by example.