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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)

Customizing Customer Interactions

Along with the catalog and checkout, customer-related functionality is central to Magento. The customer's My Account area allows control over addresses, orders, billing agreements, product wishlists, product reviews, newsletter subscriptions, and more. Customizing customer functionality often includes changes to the Sign In and Create an Account processes, as well as modifying existing, or adding new functionality under the My Account area.

Depending on the dynamics and intricacy of our functionality, JS components are often friendlier solutions than server-side PHTML templates. They allow us to engage the customer without necessarily reloading entire pages, thus improving the overall customer experience. As with any client to server-side communication, the question of passing and updating the data remains to be addressed. This is where we...