The Layout System
It’s time to get serious! In the earlier chapters, we prepared our local dockerized environment and installed Adobe Commerce (AC). We launched some CLI commands, and you learned a lot about the framework itself so that you can start customizing the platform and creating bespoke frontends for your trusted customers.
In this chapter, we will explore the Magento 2 layout system in detail. I will show you the basic concepts behind it (in short, layout eXtensible Markup Language (XML)), including its structure and the role of the layout files. We will examine the various types of blocks and containers that make up the layout system, and how they can be used to build custom pages. However, we will dig into templates a little bit more in Chapter 5, once we proceed to template systems.
A lot of developers say that the layout XML is the best thing in the entire Magento framework since Magento 1. In Magento 2, it has become even more advanced and allows us to do...
