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Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide

By : Branko Ajzele

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Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide

By: Branko Ajzele

Overview of this book

Magento is an open-source, enterprise-level e-commerce platform with unlimited scope for customization. This makes it a great choice not only for vendors but for developers as well. This book guides you through Magento development, teaching you how to develop modules that extend or change its functionality, leading to more ?exible and profitable Magento stores. You start with a structural overview of the key Magento development components. You will learn where things such as plugins, events, models, controllers, layouts, and UI components ft into the development landscape. You will go through examples of using these components to extend Magento. As you progress, you will be building a diverse series of small but practical Magento modules. By the end of this book, you will not only have a solid foundation in the Magento development architecture; but you will also have practical experience in developing modules to customize and extend Magento stores.

Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

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Free Chapter

Understanding the Magento Architecture

Understanding the Magento Architecture

Technical requirements

Installing Magento

Request flow processing

Dependency injection

Events and observers

Console commands

Working with Entities

Working with Entities

Technical requirements

Understanding types of models

Working with setup scripts

Extending entities

Understanding Web APIs

Understanding Web APIs

Technical requirements

Types of authentication

Using existing web APIs

Creating custom web APIs

Understanding search criteria

Building and Distributing Extensions

Building and Distributing Extensions

Technical requirements

Building a shipping extension

Distributing via GitHub

Distributing via Packagist

Developing for Admin

Developing for Admin

Technical requirements

Using the listing component

Using the form component

Developing for Storefront

Developing for Storefront

Technical requirements

Setting up the playground

Calling and initializing JS components

Replacing jQuery widget components

Extending jQuery widget components

Creating jQuery widgets components

Creating UI/KnockoutJS components

Extending UI/KnockoutJS components

Customizing Catalog Behavior

Customizing Catalog Behavior

Technical requirements

Creating the size guide

Creating the same day delivery

Flagging new products

Customizing Checkout Experiences

Customizing Checkout Experiences

Technical requirements

Passing data to the checkout

Adding order notes to the checkout

Customizing Customer Interactions

Customizing Customer Interactions

Technical requirements

Understanding the section mechanism

Adding contact preferences to customer accounts

Adding contact preferences to the checkout

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