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Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide

By : Branko Ajzele
Book Image

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.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Understanding Web APIs

Web application programming interfaces (API) play a major role in modern application development. They allow various third-party integrators to interact with applications through the HTTP layer. Magento supports both Representational State Transfer (REST) and Simple Object Access Protocol ( SOAP) APIs. Its web API framework is based on the create, read, update, delete (CRUD) and search (search criteria) models. The scope of functionality that APIs offer is quite big, allowing us to use them for a wide range of tasks, such as creating a completely new shopping application, integrating with customer relationship management (CRM) systems, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, and content management systems (CMS), as well as creating JavaScript widgets in the Magento storefront itself.

Moving forward, we are going to take a closer look at the following...