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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

Using the Grunt task runner to debug


Grunt is a task runner written in JavaScript that helps us automate tasks and increase productivity. On the official website, you have access to several plugins (http://gruntjs.com/plugins), so you can adjust the use of Grunt according to your needs:

Magento 2 already supports some written tasks in Grunt, but you must install it before you start your application in automation tasks. The Grunt library plugins are managed by npm, which is the Node.js package manager. Therefore, you must install Node.js to run Grunt tasks.

In the following subsections, we will look at how to install Node.js for your OS.

Tip

Learn more about Node.js (https://nodejs.org/en/) and how it is being used to create web applications projects in large scale non-relational databases (NoSQL).

Installing Node.js on Linux

The following instructions focus on two specific Linux distributions: Debian and Ubuntu. In case you have a different distribution, go to https://nodejs.org/en/download...