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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we have covered valuable web API elements. We learned how to differentiate between types of web API users, and the authentication and methods provided to do so. We also learned how easy it is to create our own APIs with just a few lines of XML. We saw how the route definition allows for easy binding between what comes via an HTTP request to what executes in code, respecting the access list permissions in the process. The value of building APIs as part of our distributable modules lies in their extensibility. APIs force us to embrace the interface way of thinking, thus allowing others to use and extend our code easily and securely. The preference mechanism we introduced in previous chapters, through di.xml files, allows others to change the behavior behind the interface easily.

Moving forward, we are going to take a more thorough and rounded look at building...