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Magento 2 Cookbook

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Magento 2 Cookbook

Overview of this book

Magento 2 is an open source e-commerce platform that has all the functionality to function from small to large online stores. It is preferred by developers and merchants due to its new architecture, which makes it possible to extend the functionalities with plugins, a lot of which are now created by the community. This merchant and developer guide is packed with recipes that cover all aspects of Magento 2. The recipes start with simple how-to’s then delve into more advanced topics as the book progresses. We start with the basics of setting up a Magento 2 project on Apache or Nginx. Next, you will learn about basics including system tools and caching to get your Magento 2 system ready for the real work. We move on to simple tasks such as managing your store and catalog configuration. When you are familiar with this, we cover more complex features such as module and extension development. Then we will jump to the final part: advanced Magento 2 extensions. By the end of this book, you’ll be competent with all the development phases of Magento 2 and its most common elements.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Magento 2 Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Manage products in a catalog grid


Managing products on a daily basis may not be one of the most entertaining tasks. The product grid in Magento 1 is, out of the box, not the best tool. Lots of merchants install a third-party extension for better use and configuration. Depending on the extension, it is possible to tune the grid accordingly.

Now the new Magento 2 catalog grid is better than ever. Every backend user can create their own view and select the appropriate attributes for the best view ever.

Besides all the fancy features, the product grid loads asynchronously, which means that the page refreshes its data in the background. This is great for performance and user experience.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will use a Droplet created in Chapter 2, Magento 2 System Tools, at DigitalOcean (https://www.digitalocean.com/). We will be using an NGINX, PHP-FPM, Composer-based setup including a single Magento 2 website, Root Catalog, store view, categories, and attributes and four...