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Magento 2 Developer's Guide

Magento 2 Developer's Guide: Harness the power of Magento 2 to extend and customize your online store

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Magento 2 Developer's Guide

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Key benefits

  • Set up, configure, and power up your Magento environment from development to production
  • Master the use of Web API to communicate with the Magento system and create custom services
  • Create custom modules from scratch to extend the core functionality of the Magento system

Description

Magento is one of the most exciting, flexible, and customizable e-commerce systems. It offers you an extensive suite of powerful tools for creating and managing an online store. After years of development, Magento 2 introduces itself with a strong emphasis on modularity, Web API's, automated testing and overall new technology stack platform.The long-awaited Magento 2 release introduces a whole new e-commerce platform to develop online stores. The all new Magento 2 architecture, Web APIs, and a host of other features are equally challenging to master as much as they are exciting to use. Tshis book will ease the learning curve by offering step-by-step guidance on how to extend the core functionality of your Magento 2 store. This book is your one-stop guide to build and customize a quality e-commerce website from the latest version of one of the largest, fastest growing, and most popular e-commerce platforms—Magento 2. We start off with an introduction to the fundamental concepts of Magento to give you a foundation to work from. We then move on to configure the development and basic production environment for Magento. After this, you’ll get to grips with the major concepts and conventions that are new to the Magento 2 platform. We then delve deeper to get to the core of automated deployments, persisting data, writing data fixture scripts and applying various backend and frontend modifications. As we near the end of the book, you will learn to make API calls and write automated tests. Finally, you will be guided through building a full-blown helpdesk module from scratch. By the end of this book, you will have learned a wide range of techniques to extend and customize your Magento 2 store to fit the requirements of your business.

Who is this book for?

This book is intended primarily for intermediate to professional-level PHP developers who are interested in Magento development. For backend developers, several topics are covered that will enable you to modify and extend your Magento 2 store. Frontend developers will also find some coverage on how to customize the look of the site in the frontend.

What you will learn

  • Set up the development and production environment of Magento 2
  • Understand the new major concepts and conventions used in Magento 2
  • Build a miniature yet fully-functional module from scratch to manage your e-commerce platform efficiently
  • Write models and collections to manage and search your entity data
  • Dive into backend development such as creating events, observers, cron jobs, logging, profiling, and messaging features
  • Get to the core of frontend development such as blocks, templates, layouts, and the themes of Magento 2
  • Use token, session, and Oauth token-based authentication via various flavors of API calls, as well as creating your own APIs
  • Get to grips with testing Magento modules and custom themes, which forms an integral part of development
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Table of Contents

13 Chapters
1. Understanding the Platform Architecture Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Managing the Environment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Programming Concepts and Conventions Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Models and Collections Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Using the Dependency Injection Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Plugins Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Backend Development Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. Frontend Development Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
9. The Web API Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
10. The Major Functional Areas Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
11. Testing Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
12. Building a Module from Scratch Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Index Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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Daniel Kratohvil Feb 17, 2016
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This is a complete and easy to follow introduction to all the basics of Magento 2. I have really enjoyed reading the book and doing the example module, which is nicely explained and gives you enough insight to tackle any complex requirement. One month before this book was available, I paid $280 for the "Fundamentals of Magento 2 Development" online course offered by Magento, and I wish I would have waited a little longer for this book, since it’s more than enough to grasp the basics, cost much less and doesn’t have errors in the example code like the Magento’s video-tutorial has. I definitely recommend this book to any developer with some previous experience in Magento 1.
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tanghia Feb 03, 2017
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The best book for Magento 2.
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For anyone who is interested in eCommerce, Magento development, or web development in general, you will want to read this book, which covers in depth, the long awaited and highly anticipated Magento 2 platform. I was fortunate enough to have been the technical reviewer for this book and I must say even I'm impressed by the attention to detail and thoroughness of the topics covered. The author Branko Ajzele is as top notch as it gets in the world of eCommerce and the Magento sphere. Branko lays it all out from setting up your local development environments, to unit-testing, to advanced module/extension development. All readers— from frontend to backend developers, from noobs to senior developers & engineers, and even people who are new to the Magento platform will benefit from reading this book in more ways than you can imagine. It will take your skill set to the next level and also put you ahead of the game with other developers.
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Cameron Tudball Feb 07, 2016
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Magento 2 Developer's Guide is exactly what the title indicates: an excellent guide through the logic, file structures and setup of Magento 2 that is firmly aimed at PHP developers. If you are looking for a starting point to understand how Magneto 2 works, and how you can configure and extend Magento to meet your site requirements, then this book is where you should start.None of the topics are covered in depth, which allows this book to provide a firm overview of Magento and yet gives you enough detail that you feel confident exploring topics on your own. The chapter on themes, for example, does not provide you with a step-by-step guide on how to make complex frontends (indeed, such a topic would be its own book). Instead it shows you exactly how themes are structured, which for an experienced developer allows you to understand the overall structure. For me, this was far more useful than a step-by-step tutorial.This is not a guide on how to setup and manage Magento as an eCommerce platform. If you're looking for an introduction to using Magento, then this book is not for you. However if you're fluent in PHP and have a requirement to learn the Magento 2 platform, then this book is exactly what you're looking for.
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Anuwat Soita Oct 16, 2019
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