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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

The Magento UI library


The Magento UI library was created so that the developers of Magento themes could use a ready and optimized solution that supported the development of new Magento themes. The library is based on the LESS preprocessor, which facilitates the implementation of customizations in Magento 2 theme development.

The Magento UI library provides the following elements and properties so that theme developers can customize the user interface of their projects:

  • actions-toolbar: Includes a set of actions on a page, such as submit buttons and links to navigate the page

  • breadcrumbs: Allows users to keep track of their location within the website

  • buttons: A set of different buttons to use in your project

  • dropdowns: A set of drop-downs to use in your project

  • forms: Customize your forms using the mixins and by configuring the global variables

  • icons: Can be added to any HTML tag, and represented by fonts, images, or sprites

  • layout: Provides mixins for flexible page layout customization

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