Set up, configure, and power up your Magento environment from development to production
Master the use of Web API to communicate with the Magento system and create custom services
Create custom modules from scratch to extend the core functionality of the Magento system

Description

Magento is one of the most exciting, flexible, and customizable e-commerce systems. It offers you an extensive suite of powerful tools for creating and managing an online store. After years of development, Magento 2 introduces itself with a strong emphasis on modularity, Web API's, automated testing and overall new technology stack platform.The long-awaited Magento 2 release introduces a whole new e-commerce platform to develop online stores. The all new Magento 2 architecture, Web APIs, and a host of other features are equally challenging to master as much as they are exciting to use. Tshis book will ease the learning curve by offering step-by-step guidance on how to extend the core functionality of your Magento 2 store. This book is your one-stop guide to build and customize a quality e-commerce website from the latest version of one of the largest, fastest growing, and most popular e-commerce platforms—Magento 2. We start off with an introduction to the fundamental concepts of Magento to give you a foundation to work from. We then move on to configure the development and basic production environment for Magento. After this, you’ll get to grips with the major concepts and conventions that are new to the Magento 2 platform. We then delve deeper to get to the core of automated deployments, persisting data, writing data fixture scripts and applying various backend and frontend modifications. As we near the end of the book, you will learn to make API calls and write automated tests. Finally, you will be guided through building a full-blown helpdesk module from scratch. By the end of this book, you will have learned a wide range of techniques to extend and customize your Magento 2 store to fit the requirements of your business.

Who is this book for?

This book is intended primarily for intermediate to professional-level PHP developers who are interested in Magento development. For backend developers, several topics are covered that will enable you to modify and extend your Magento 2 store. Frontend developers will also find some coverage on how to customize the look of the site in the frontend.

What you will learn

Set up the development and production environment of Magento 2
Understand the new major concepts and conventions used in Magento 2
Build a miniature yet fully-functional module from scratch to manage your e-commerce platform efficiently
Write models and collections to manage and search your entity data
Dive into backend development such as creating events, observers, cron jobs, logging, profiling, and messaging features
Get to the core of frontend development such as blocks, templates, layouts, and the themes of Magento 2
Use token, session, and Oauth token-based authentication via various flavors of API calls, as well as creating your own APIs
Get to grips with testing Magento modules and custom themes, which forms an integral part of development

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Reviewerman May 19, 2021

The Magento devs have moved on but these guys haven't kept up. I'm only into chapter 4 and already I've hit multiple areas where the way the book shows you is not the way it's done any more. I'd like to recommend the eBook, but I don't relish spending more money just to potentially hit the same outdated code.

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Anuwat Soita Oct 16, 2019

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Benjamin Rubin Jan 08, 2019

Let me start by saying that I've only gotten through the first four chapters of this book, so my review is based on about the first 25% of the book. Based on what I've read so far, I don't recommend this book. The author seems rushed when he explains concepts, and he often puts very important details in easy-to-miss areas.Chapter 2 is about using Vagrant and Virtual Box to provision a virtual Linux machine to run Magento. That's a great idea, but the scripts that the author provided don't work as printed in the book, and they were clearly either not tested or the author incorrectly copied them from his original working scripts. Granted, some of the scripts may be broken by the fact that the author is using an earlier version of a Linux virtual machine than is currently available for Vagrant. However, some of the commands as printed either have incorrect quotes, result in permission errors, or just plain don't work. The author has a Github repository that looks like it should have the Vagrant scripts used in this chapter, but the repository is empty (and typing that script by hand is very error prone). I was able to modify the author's Vagrant setup to get it to work, but it took me a few days of research and testing.Chapter 4 is the first time the reader gets to start typing code. Most programming books have the reader create a simple "Hello World" program, and then start expanding on it from there. The author of this book has the reader type code for twenty pages or so before installing and running the first module. Furthermore, the command to actually install the module into Magento is easily missed, and the author phrases it in such a way that it's unclear if the reader should run the command now or not. I only figured out how to install my module because I looked up a separate tutorial online. There are several other places in this book where it's ambiguous as to whether I should be typing/running some code, or whether the code is just there to say "this is how you do X in the future".I don't expect programming books to be error free, especially since the software used in them changes so quickly. However, this book has far too much code that is poorly explained or just wrong. As a newcomer to Magento, I want a book where I can learn by running examples from the book. So far, I've spent too much time troubleshooting why the stuff in this book doesn't work.

David Ford Mar 18, 2017

It is a good high level reference book, however does not go into very advanced Magento Concepts which I believe it should, even f the book is twice as large. Overall, it beats anything else out there, but still is lacking.

tanghia Feb 03, 2017

The best book for Magento 2.

Magento 2 Developer's Guide: Harness the power of Magento 2 to extend and customize your online store

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