Preface

Magento is one of the most successful open source e-commerce platforms out there today. It is powerful enough to build small or enterprise businesses.

The first stable version of Magento was released in 2008. Since the beginning, lots of merchants have chosen Magento to be their platform with great success.

The current global ecosystem of Magento includes 240+ merchants, 300+ partners, and 4500+ certified developers, and this number is growing on a daily basis.

Over the last few years, e-commerce has changed a lot, so Magento announced a new platform that will support this. This new era of commerce is called Magento 2.

Magento 2 offers enhanced performance and scalability. The new platform is built from scratch to enable lots of new features. It supports both B2C and B2B businesses, and will serve the best omnichannel shopping experiences to their shoppers.

This book will provide you with the necessary insights to get a better understanding on what is needed to build such a powerful commerce platform.

The book is divided into several recipes, which show you which steps to take to complete a specific action. In each recipe, we have a section that explains how everything works.

It will cover installing a Magento 2 website, configuring your categories and products, performance tuning, creating a theme, developing a module, and much more.

At the end of this book, you will gain the knowledge to start building a success website.