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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.

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Table of Contents (11 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
To get the most out of this book
Code in Action
Get in touch
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1
Understanding the Magento Architecture
Understanding the Magento Architecture
Technical requirements
Installing Magento
Modes
Areas
Request flow processing
Modules
Cache
Dependency injection
Plugins
Events and observers
Console commands
Cron jobs
Summary
2
Working with Entities
Working with Entities
Technical requirements
Understanding types of models
Working with setup scripts
Extending entities
Summary
3
Understanding Web APIs
Understanding Web APIs
Technical requirements
Types of users
Types of authentication
Types of APIs
Using existing web APIs
Creating custom web APIs
Understanding search criteria
Summary
4
Building and Distributing Extensions
Building and Distributing Extensions
Technical requirements
Building a shipping extension
Distributing via GitHub
Distributing via Packagist
Summary
5
Developing for Admin
Developing for Admin
Technical requirements
Using the listing component
Using the form component
Summary
6
Developing for Storefront
Developing for Storefront
Technical requirements
Setting up the playground
Calling and initializing JS components
Meet RequireJS
Replacing jQuery widget components
Extending jQuery widget components
Creating jQuery widgets components
Creating UI/KnockoutJS components
Extending UI/KnockoutJS components
Summary
7
Customizing Catalog Behavior
Customizing Catalog Behavior
Technical requirements
Creating the size guide
Creating the same day delivery
Flagging new products
Summary
8
Customizing Checkout Experiences
Customizing Checkout Experiences
Technical requirements
Passing data to the checkout
Adding order notes to the checkout
Summary
9
Customizing Customer Interactions
Customizing Customer Interactions
Technical requirements
Understanding the section mechanism
Adding contact preferences to customer accounts
Adding contact preferences to the checkout
Summary
10
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To get the most out of this book

To get the most out of the book, the reader is expected to have:

  • A degree of PHP object-oriented programming (OOP) knowledge
  • A basic understanding of JavaScript and XML

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