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Mastering Adobe Commerce Frontend

By : Jakub Winkler
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Mastering Adobe Commerce Frontend

By: Jakub Winkler

Overview of this book

Navigating the frontend realm of the Adobe Commerce platform can often feel like a labyrinth, given its multifaceted systems and intricate layering. This book demystifies Adobe Commerce frontend development, guiding you through its paths with clarity and precision. You'll learn how to set up your local environment, paving the way for a smooth development experience and navigate the platform's theming ecosystem, exploring layout XML systems and the power of templates. As you progress through the book, you'll leverage an array of JavaScript libraries and frameworks that Adobe Commerce boasts of, with special emphasis on RequireJS, jQuery, Knockout.JS, and UI Components. Additionally, you'll gain an understanding of the intricacies of Adobe Commerce CMS, explore frontend-related configurations in the admin panel, and unlock the secrets of frontend optimization. Practical exercises provided in the book will enable you to create top-notch Adobe Commerce sites that are functional, optimized, user-centric, and a step ahead in the ever-evolving frontend landscape.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about some of the history behind AC and Magento. You created the required accounts and learned about the importance of Composer keys. You also learned how to get the platform running in a Dockerized environment from scratch and dipped your toes into CLI commands.

In the next chapter, I’ll guide you through the basic concepts of AC theming and I’ll share much more knowledge about the platform itself – knowledge that, in my opinion, is a must-know for any Adobe Connect/Magento Open Source developer, as well as eCommerce managers.

We will create a new theme and understand the concepts and the role of the Adobe Connect caching system before I describe more areas of the platform itself so that will never run into any issues during development.

You will also learn the basics of the fallback system and how to compile fewer files to produce the CSS files used by Adobe Connect. Simply put, things will finally be more development...