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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

Best practices in Magento 2 development


In the previous chapters, the concern about layout configuration files and theme declaration was evident in the theme development process, making it necessary for us to follow specific standards for proper functioning in the instance. Besides the correct declaration, it is necessary that the codification follow standards of quality and functionality within the proposed architecture.

Magento 2 uses the standards provided by Zend Coding Standards and by the PHP Framework Interop Group, which decide the format in which themes and modules must operate in the Magento system.

Tip

For more information about the Zend Coding Standards, refer to the official documentation at https://framework.zend.com/manual/1.12/en/coding-standard.html .

The developed code should make the most of the existing code in the Magento 2 system. For example, during the development of the Bookstore theme, we used all of the initial structure of the Blank theme in addition to the Luma...