Best practices in Magento 2 development

In the previous chapters, the concern about layout configuration files and theme declaration was evident in the theme development process, making it necessary for us to follow specific standards for proper functioning in the instance. Besides the correct declaration, it is necessary that the codification follow standards of quality and functionality within the proposed architecture.

Magento 2 uses the standards provided by Zend Coding Standards and by the PHP Framework Interop Group, which decide the format in which themes and modules must operate in the Magento system.

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For more information about the Zend Coding Standards, refer to the official documentation at https://framework.zend.com/manual/1.12/en/coding-standard.html .

The developed code should make the most of the existing code in the Magento 2 system. For example, during the development of the Bookstore theme, we used all of the initial structure of the Blank theme in addition to the Luma...