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Magento 2 Developer's Guide

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Magento 2 Developer's Guide

Overview of this book

Magento is one of the most exciting, flexible, and customizable e-commerce systems. It offers you an extensive suite of powerful tools for creating and managing an online store. After years of development, Magento 2 introduces itself with a strong emphasis on modularity, Web API's, automated testing and overall new technology stack platform.The long-awaited Magento 2 release introduces a whole new e-commerce platform to develop online stores. The all new Magento 2 architecture, Web APIs, and a host of other features are equally challenging to master as much as they are exciting to use. Tshis book will ease the learning curve by offering step-by-step guidance on how to extend the core functionality of your Magento 2 store. This book is your one-stop guide to build and customize a quality e-commerce website from the latest version of one of the largest, fastest growing, and most popular e-commerce platforms—Magento 2. We start off with an introduction to the fundamental concepts of Magento to give you a foundation to work from. We then move on to configure the development and basic production environment for Magento. After this, you’ll get to grips with the major concepts and conventions that are new to the Magento 2 platform. We then delve deeper to get to the core of automated deployments, persisting data, writing data fixture scripts and applying various backend and frontend modifications. As we near the end of the book, you will learn to make API calls and write automated tests. Finally, you will be guided through building a full-blown helpdesk module from scratch. By the end of this book, you will have learned a wide range of techniques to extend and customize your Magento 2 store to fit the requirements of your business.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Magento 2 Developer's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 2. Managing the Environment

Throughout this chapter, we will look into setting up our development and production environments. The idea is to have a fully automated development environment, which can be initiated with a single console command. For a production environment, we will turn our focus to one of the available cloud services, and see how easy it is to set up Magento for simpler production projects. We will not be covering any robust environment setups like auto-scaling, caching servers, content delivery networks, and similar. These are really jobs for System Administrator or DevOps roles. Our attention here is the bare minimum needed to get our Magento store up and running; a milestone we will achieve throughout the following sections would be:

  • Setting up a development environment

    • VirtualBox

    • Vagrant

    • Vagrant project

      • Provisioning PHP

      • Provisioning MySQL

      • Provisioning Apache

      • Provisioning Magento installation

  • Setting up a production environment

    • Introduction to Amazon Web Services (AWS)

    • Setting...