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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

Packaging your theme


By default, all themes should be compressed in ZIP format and contain only the root directory of the component developed, excluding any file and directory that is not part of the standard structure.

The following command shows the compression standard used in Magento 2 components:

zip -r vendor-name_package-name-1.0.0.zip package-path/* -x 'package-path/.git/*'

Here, the name of the ZIP file has the following components:

  • vendor: This symbolizes the vendor by which the theme was developed

  • name_package: This is the package name

  • name: This is the component name

  • 1.0.0: This is the component version

After formatting the component name, it defines which directory will be compressed, followed by the -x parameter, which excludes the git directory from the theme compression.

How about applying ZIP compression on the Bookstore theme? To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Using a terminal or Command Prompt, access the theme's root directory: <magento_root>/app/design/frontend/Packt...