Applying the theme

As you learned in the previous chapter, it's time to activate the new theme. Activate the CompStore Electronics theme in the Admin area (http://localhost/packt/admin_packt) to see the following result:

Sometimes, when you update in the Magento structure or activate a new theme, you need to deploy the theme and module changes. If you want to deploy your changes, follow these steps:

1. Open the terminal or command prompt.

2. Delete the packt/pub/static/frontend/<Vendor>/<theme>/<locale> directory.

3. Delete the var/cache directory.

4. Delete the var/view_preprocessed directory.

5. Then, access the packt/bin directory.

6. Run the php magento setup:static-content:deploy command.

7. In some cases, it is necessary to give write permissions again to the directories.