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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

Magento 2 theme files


Magento 2 works with two groups of view files:

  • Static view files: These are composed of images, JavaScript, and CSS files that do not undergo any processing at the server level

  • Dynamic view files: These files are processed by the server, such as .less, templates and layouts files.

If you have no knowledge of LESS files, do not worry. In the next chapter, chapter 4, Magento UI Library, we will address this issue.

These two groups of files are linked directly to the cache management of Magento 2, as you will see in next topic.