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Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide Build better stores by extending Magento

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789343441
Length 218 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Understanding the Magento Architecture FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Entities 3. Understanding Web APIs 4. Building and Distributing Extensions 5. Developing for Admin 6. Developing for Storefront 7. Customizing Catalog Behavior 8. Customizing Checkout Experiences 9. Customizing Customer Interactions 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding the section mechanism

Our previous chapter touched upon config providers and the window.checkoutConfig object; a mechanism by which we can push our server-side data to our storefront when a page loads. The section mechanism allows us to push data to a browser page upon any named HTTP POST request.

Let's take a quick look at the <MAGENTO_DIR>/module-review/etc/frontend/sections.xml file:

<action name="review/product/post">
<section name="review"/>
</action>

The definition provided here is to be interpreted as: "any storefront HTTP POST review/product/post request is to trigger a review section load," where review section load means Magento triggering an additional AJAX request following the completion of an observed HTTP POST. The result of this section load action, in this case, is the refresh of section...

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