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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

The Twitter REST API


Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architecture created to provide a simple communication channel between different applications over the Internet using mainly the HTTP protocol. It is the hottest data technology nowadays. Facebook, Google, Twitter, and a lot of huge companies have adopted REST applications. With REST APIs, you can read, post, and delete data.

Twitter has a specific format to spread its data on the Web in order to create great integration with different kinds of applications that consume its service. According to Twitter Developers Documentation available at https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public, Twitter REST APIs provide programmatic access to read and write Twitter data. You can author a new Tweet, read an author profile or follower data, and more. The REST API identifies Twitter applications and users using Oauth, and the responses are available in JSON.

Before beginning to code the Magento extension, let's create an account on Twitter Developer...