You're reading from Mastering Adobe Commerce Frontend Build optimized, user-centric e-commerce sites with tailored theme design and enhanced interactivity

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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Introduction to JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks

As I warned you in the previous chapter, the easy part is over, and we are getting to the more complicated stuff. Some people say that the way JavaScript was added to the framework couldn’t have been done worse. Are they right? That is up for you to decide, but the fact is that most frontend developers don’t like to work with JavaScript (JS) in the Adobe Commerce (AC) platform. Why is that?

Some teams I’ve worked with and managed were always having discussions about who should prepare the JavaScript for a certain module. Frontend developers ask backend developers to prepare basic JavaScript related to Magento modules. At the same time, backend developers refused to do any JS work and they passed working modules to the frontend team.

So, who is right? If we investigate the Adobe Commerce Frontend Certification guidelines and the required skills to take the exam, we can see the following:

Experience and...