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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

Magento 2 JavaScript structure


The use of JavaScript in web application projects has evolved in recent years because of the functionalities, facilities, and portability that this technology provides to users.

The inclusion of the JavaScript files was made exclusively through insertion in the page headers, which has caused a big problem in performance and page loading.

In previous versions of Magento it was discussed in relation to good practice using the JavaScript and standardization of use of libraries, such as jQuery (http://jquery.com/) and Prototype (http://prototypejs.org/). In order to provide greater management power and performance of JavaScript, Magento 2 uses RequireJS (http://requirejs.org/) as a standard to load JavaScript libraries.

RequireJS is a JavaScript file and module loader and it implements the standard and Asynchronous Module Definition (AMD). This type of pattern allows JavaScript to run without it to be declared in a global scope, such as layout configuration files...