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Magento 2 - Build World-Class online stores

By : Fernando J Miguel, Ray Bogman, Vladimir Kerkhoff, Bret Williams, Jonathan Bownds
Book Image

Magento 2 - Build World-Class online stores

By: Fernando J Miguel, Ray Bogman, Vladimir Kerkhoff, Bret Williams, Jonathan Bownds

Overview of this book

Magento is the leading e-commerce software trusted by world`s leading organizations. Used by thousands of merchants for their transactions worth billions, it provides the flexibility to customize the content and functionality of your website. Our Magento Course will help you gain knowledge and skills that are required to design & develop world class online stores. Magento 2 Development Essentials - This book begins by setting up Magento 2 before gradually moving onto setting the basic options of the Sell System. You will learn Search Engine Optimization aspects, create design and customize theme layout, and adjust the Magento System to achieve great performance. Magento 2 Cookbook – This book is divided into several recipes, which show you which steps to take to complete a specific action. It will cover configuring your categories and products, performance tuning, creating a theme, developing a module etc. At the end of this book, you will gain the knowledge to start building a success website. Mastering Magento 2 - This is a comprehensive guide to using the all new features and interface of Magento 2 to build, extend, and design online stores. This book is your roadmap to managing your Magento store which teaches advanced and successful techniques. Focusing on Magento's Community version, this book offers you advanced guidance on managing, optimizing, and extending your store while taking advantage of the new features of Magento 2. This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products • Magento 2 Development Essentials by Fernando J. Miguel • Magento 2 Cookbook by Ray Bogman and Vladimir Kerkhoff • Mastering Magento 2 by Bret Williams and Jonathan Bownds
Table of Contents (6 chapters)

Chapter 1. Magento 2 System Tools

In this chapter, we will cover the basic tasks related to managing the system tools of Magento 2. You will learn the following recipes:

  • Installing Magento 2 sample data via GUI
  • Installing Magento 2 sample data via the command line
  • Managing Magento 2 indexes via the command line
  • Managing Magento 2 cache via the command line
  • Managing Magento 2 backup via the command line
  • Managing Magento 2 set mode (MAGE_MODE)
  • Transferring your Magento 1 database to Magento 2

Introduction

This chapter explains how to install and manage Magento 2 on a production-like environment. We will be installing a new Magento 2 instance via the shell command with and without sample data. Besides the setup, managing Magento 2 is different from the current Magento version. We will be using a lot of tools from the command line so basic shell knowledge is advised. The command-line tool in the /bin directory is similar to the current Swiss army knife tool in the current Magento version...