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Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide

By : Branko Ajzele
Book Image

Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide

By: Branko Ajzele

Overview of this book

Magento is an open-source, enterprise-level e-commerce platform with unlimited scope for customization. This makes it a great choice not only for vendors but for developers as well. This book guides you through Magento development, teaching you how to develop modules that extend or change its functionality, leading to more ?exible and profitable Magento stores. You start with a structural overview of the key Magento development components. You will learn where things such as plugins, events, models, controllers, layouts, and UI components ft into the development landscape. You will go through examples of using these components to extend Magento. As you progress, you will be building a diverse series of small but practical Magento modules. By the end of this book, you will not only have a solid foundation in the Magento development architecture; but you will also have practical experience in developing modules to customize and extend Magento stores.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we have built three distinctive functionalities, all of which relate to the catalog part of Magento. Though very lightweight, they stand to show how easily Magento can be extended with new features without really overriding any of the core files. Using plugins and JS components are merely some of the approaches we might take. Quite often, we will find that a single requirement might be delivered with more than one approach. The main guiding rule for our code should always be: use the least intrusive. Catalog functionality plays a major role in the customer conversion process, so our priority should always be failsafe when possible.

Moving forward, we are going to take a look at some of the things we can do to customize the checkout.