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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

The var directory


Magento does a lot of caching and autogeneration of certain class types. These caches and generated classes are all located in Magento's root var directory. The usual contents of the var directory is as follows:

cache
composer_home
generation
log
di
view_preprocessed
page_cache

During development, we will most likely need to periodically clear these so that our changes can kick in.

We can issue the console command as follows to clear individual directories:

rm -rf {Magento root dir}/var/generation/*

Alternatively, we can use the built-in bin/magento console tool to trigger commands that will delete the proper directories for us, as follows:

  • bin/magento setup:upgrade: This updates the Magento database schema and data. While doing this, it truncates the var/di and var/generation directories.

  • bin/magento setup:di:compile: This clears the var/generation directory. After doing this, it compiles the code in it again.

  • bin/magento deploy:mode:set {mode}: This changes the mode from the...