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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)

Installing the required tools to work with emails

You’ve already learned a few things about composer, and we will use it to install some tools that will help us with email customization tasks.

Testing emails is always time-consuming, especially if nobody tells you how to do it right. By default, most frontend developers must simulate the customer journey on the website each time they need to test changes. It is criminally inefficient, and my goal is for you to know how to use the proper tools so your development process does not stall.

The AC community is a great place to be—full of wonderful people who share their ideas and modules. One such module is Yireo_EmailTester2, found at https://github.com/yireo/Yireo_EmailTester2, created by Jisse Reitsma, the founder of Yireo. We can install this module using the following command:

composer require yireo/magento2-emailtester2
php bin/magento setup:upgrade

What this module does is it creates a new section in the...