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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

Testing the website on different devices


In order to test your website in different devices and, consequently, different screen sizes, it is recommended to use a specific software or service to simulate the screen sizes of devices. If you perform a search on the web, you may find a great number of online test tools, but these tools work only with published websites. Our Magento site works, for now, on our local development environment.

To take advantage of our local development environment, let's work with the Google Chrome DevTools Device Mode and the Responsive Web Designer Tester extensions. In this book, we'll have two options to work with mobile theme development. You choose both of them!

If you don't have Google Chrome installed, download it from the URL https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/desktop/ to install it on your operating system.

The Google Chrome DevTools device mode

Google Chrome DevTools is a native tool of Google Chrome that provides a bunch of tools for web developers...