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Magento 2 Development Cookbook

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Magento 2 Development Cookbook

Overview of this book

With the challenges of growing an online business, Magento 2 is an open source e-commerce platform with innumerable functionalities that gives you the freedom to make on-the-fly decisions. It allows you to customize multiple levels of security permissions and enhance the look and feel of your website, and thus gives you a personalized experience in promoting your business.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Index

Creating an empty module


As we did in the previous chapter and fully explained in Chapter 4, Creating a Module, we will create the required files to create an empty module that we will extend with widget configurations in further chapters. We will start with an empty Magento module that we will create in this recipe. We will create all the required files to initialize a new module that can be used for the creation of a widget.

Getting ready

We will create new module called Packt_ProductSlider. Open your IDE to add some code to it.

How to do it...

Using the following steps, we will create an empty module called Packt_ProductSlider:

  1. Create the following folders in your Magento root:

    • app/code/Packt/

    • app/code/Packt/ProductSlider/

    • app/code/Packt/ProductSlider/etc/

  2. In the app/code/Packt/ProductSlider/etc/ folder, create a file called module.xml.

  3. In this file, paste the following code:

    <?xml version="1.0"?>
    <configxmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation...