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Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837637072

Length 402 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Adobe Commerce

Concepts

CMS

Author (1):

Jakub Winkler

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Setting Up the Local Environment FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 2: Installing the Magento/Adobe Commerce Application

3. Chapter 3: Introduction to Adobe Commerce Theming

4. Chapter 4: The Layout System

5. Chapter 5: Working with Templates

6. Chapter 6: Styling an Adobe Commerce Theme

7. Chapter 7: Customizing Emails

8. Chapter 8: Introduction to JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks

9. Chapter 9: RequireJS and jQuery

10. Chapter 10: Knockout.js and UI Components

11. Chapter 11: Commonly Used Libraries Bundled with Adobe Commerce

12. Chapter 12: Storefront-Related Configuration in the Admin Panel

13. Chapter 13: Working with Magento CMS

14. Chapter 14: Frontend Optimization Techniques

15. Chapter 15: Common Tools that Help with Local Development

16. Index

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Getting to know the platform

The eCommerce framework Magento was created by Varien Inc. and launched on March 31, 2008. It was made available as a fully open source platform for all to use. Some significant companies, including eBay and PayPal, have been involved with Magento since then. It was offered in two versions:

Community Edition: Fully open source version for everyone
Enterprise Edition: A paid version of the Magento platform with extra features and some performance improvements that were not part of the open source version

Magento 1 was – and remains – an excellent platform. The development of a new version, simply called Magento 2, was ongoing for several years and was released on November 17, 2015. In my personal opinion, the platform was released too soon, and it took Magento over 2 years to produce something much more stable that could be used on production sites.

In 2018, Adobe acquired Magento. After Magento 2 was released and Adobe...