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Magento 2 Theme Design - Second Edition

By : Richard Carter
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Magento 2 Theme Design - Second Edition

By: Richard Carter

Overview of this book

Magento is the e-commerce software and platform trusted by the world’s leading brands. Using Magento’s powerful theming engine, you can control the look, content, and functionality, and easily launch a flexible e-commerce website. However, because of its powerful features, developing Magento themes is easier said than done. This book aims to leverage the enhancements to theme designing in Magento 2 to the fullest. It will show you how to gear up the performance of your e-commerce website. We begin by introducing Magento 2 and its features along with implementing a local development Magento environment. We then move on to discuss the concepts of the Magento theme structure such as templates, inheritance, customization, and override. Further on, we explore the Magento UI Library, which is a new feature available in Magento 2.0. We will create a new Magento 2.0 theme named MyCake Store using Magento Bootstrap from Maven E-commerce and also create print strategies for the Magento 2.0 theme. We will also create and customize a new theme proposal for the Magento admin panel. At the end, we will integrate Magento 2.0 to Twitter and integrate it with social bookmarking and finally deploy our new Magento 2.0 theme.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Magento 2 Theme Design - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Development workflow


The development of Magento 2 components follows the minimum criteria necessary so that it can achieve the goal of delivering a theme or a functional module to your user and/ or client. These criteria are listed as follows:

  • Dependencies declaration via composer.json

  • Component registration using registration.php

  • Components definition via XML components

  • Publication and distribution of developed components

The act of declaring a file composer.json is good practice for dependency management of components as well as containing important information about the theme or module that is being developed.

The registration.php file already allows the Magento system to make the registration of the new component that can be used in the scope that you intend, and it can be added to core components of Magento in order to reuse the code already produced.

For example, the declaration of XML definition files enables the nomenclature of your component as well as the versions parameterization.

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