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Magento 2 Theme Design - Second Edition

By : Richard Carter
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Magento 2 Theme Design - Second Edition

By: Richard Carter

Overview of this book

Magento is the e-commerce software and platform trusted by the world’s leading brands. Using Magento’s powerful theming engine, you can control the look, content, and functionality, and easily launch a flexible e-commerce website. However, because of its powerful features, developing Magento themes is easier said than done. This book aims to leverage the enhancements to theme designing in Magento 2 to the fullest. It will show you how to gear up the performance of your e-commerce website. We begin by introducing Magento 2 and its features along with implementing a local development Magento environment. We then move on to discuss the concepts of the Magento theme structure such as templates, inheritance, customization, and override. Further on, we explore the Magento UI Library, which is a new feature available in Magento 2.0. We will create a new Magento 2.0 theme named MyCake Store using Magento Bootstrap from Maven E-commerce and also create print strategies for the Magento 2.0 theme. We will also create and customize a new theme proposal for the Magento admin panel. At the end, we will integrate Magento 2.0 to Twitter and integrate it with social bookmarking and finally deploy our new Magento 2.0 theme.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Magento 2 Theme Design - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Developing the Sweet Tweet module


To go a little deeper on the concepts seen so far, we will develop a new module called Sweet Tweet integrating with social media. This module will make an integration with the Application Programming Interface (API) of Twitter and it will be used to display tweets with hashtags #magento2, #magentodev and #magentolive in the visualization layer of your Magento 2 instance. With this practice it will be possible to memorize even more the concept of componentization and managing dependencies via composer.json file.

In the previous development of the Promo module, you used the jCarousel library as a third-party library. In the development of the Sweet Tweet module you will use the TwitterOAuth authentication package that enables authentication on the API layer Twitter but with a crucial difference: You will use the composer.json to manage this additional package in a more effective way.

The Twitter REST API

The Twitter developers' area (https://dev.twitter.com/...