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Magento 2 Cookbook

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Magento 2 Cookbook

Overview of this book

Magento 2 is an open source e-commerce platform that has all the functionality to function from small to large online stores. It is preferred by developers and merchants due to its new architecture, which makes it possible to extend the functionalities with plugins, a lot of which are now created by the community. This merchant and developer guide is packed with recipes that cover all aspects of Magento 2. The recipes start with simple how-to’s then delve into more advanced topics as the book progresses. We start with the basics of setting up a Magento 2 project on Apache or Nginx. Next, you will learn about basics including system tools and caching to get your Magento 2 system ready for the real work. We move on to simple tasks such as managing your store and catalog configuration. When you are familiar with this, we cover more complex features such as module and extension development. Then we will jump to the final part: advanced Magento 2 extensions. By the end of this book, you’ll be competent with all the development phases of Magento 2 and its most common elements.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Magento 2 Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


Now that we have installed and configured Magento 2, we will see the basics on how to create a new Magento 2 extension. If you are familiar with creating an extension for Magento 1.x, you will notice that there are some concepts that look a lot like how it is done in Magento 1. However, as the code is a completely new framework, there are also lots of changes in the module structure and necessary files.

Some of the major changes that change the way a extension is created are as follows:

  • A new module structure: The directory structure has changed, moving all parts of an extension into a single container, and files are no longer spread between different locations. This makes it easier to maintain an extension.

  • Configuration files: In Magento 2, the configuration of an extension is split into multiple smaller files that are validated by an XML Schema Definition (XSD) schema. Additionally, some configuration files can be area-specific (adminhtml, frontend, cron, and api) to overwrite...