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Magento 2 Cookbook

You're reading from   Magento 2 Cookbook Exploring Magento 2 in the form of recipes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785887062
Length 342 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing Magento 2 on Apache and NGINX 2. Magento 2 System Tools FREE CHAPTER 3. Enabling Performance in Magento 2 4. Creating Catalogs and Categories 5. Managing Your Store 6. Creating a Magento 2 Theme 7. Creating Magento 2 Extensions – the Basics 8. Creating Magento 2 Extensions – Advanced Index

Introduction


This chapter explains one of the most important elements of Magento. From the early Magento days, performance has been a hard topic to cover. Many setups out there in the e-commerce world are performance-great, but most of the time, the majority are having issues. Magento 1 may not be the best performance platform out there.

However, now we have Magento 2, a brand new platform designed for performance. From the very first day, the main Magento developers focused on a better framework and the outcome is great. According to the latest information, Magento focused on a Google PageSpeed ranking of 90% or more.

In this chapter, we will dive in deeper on how to configure Redis caching and Memcached sessions. By default, Magento 2 supports Varnish, and we will manage all of the steps on how to set it up.

Serving the correct catalog or product images is very important, and will save lots of bandwidth on a desktop but most of all on a mobile device, which will have a better user experience...

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