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Magento 2 Development Essentials

You're reading from   Magento 2 Development Essentials Get up and running with Magento 2 to create custom solutions, themes, and extensions effectively

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785289897
Length 178 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Fernando J Miguel Fernando J Miguel
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Preface 1. Magento Fundamentals 2. Magento 2.0 Features FREE CHAPTER 3. Working with Search Engine Optimization 4. Magento 2.0 Theme Development – the Developers' Holy Grail 5. Creating a Responsive Magento 2.0 Theme 6. Write Magento 2.0 Extensions – a Great Place to Go 7. Go Mobile with Magento 2.0! 8. Speeding up Your Magento 2.0 9. Improving Your Magento Skills Index

Building the CompStore theme


As you noted in the previous chapter, Magento can store different themes inside the same vendor scope. The proposal project called CompStore will be a template of the Packt vendor. This is the same vendor created in the previous chapter.

First of all, it is important to build the theme directory in the Packt vendor directory (<Magento root directory>/app/design/frontend/Packt/compstore). Create this folder as the following image suggests:

The etc directory usually handles the XML configuration of some components. The Magento_Theme directory will override the native Magento_Theme module by adding new functionalities. The media directory will store the preview image of the CompStore theme. Meanwhile, the web directory would have store CSS and image files by now.

The Compstore theme will have Luma as the parent theme. This example shows you the power of the abstraction used in Magento theme projects. Create the theme.xml file in the Packt/compstore directory...

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