Initializing module configurations

In Chapter 4, Creating a Module, you learned how to create a custom module. In this recipe, we will create a new module where we will add the required settings for a shipping module.

In the later recipes of this chapter, we will extend this module with more shipping features.

Getting ready

Open your IDE with the Magento 2 project. We will also need the backend, where we will check some configurations.

How to do it...

The following steps describe how we can create the configuration for a shipping module:

1. First, we have to create the following folders:

   • app/code/Packt/

   • app/code/Packt/Shipme/

   • app/code/Packt/Shipme/etc/

   • app/code/Packt/Shipme/Model/

   • app/code/Packt/Shipme/Model/Carrier/

2. Create a module.xml file in the app/code/Packt/Shipme/etc/ folder with the following content:

   <?xml version="1.0"?>
   <config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:Module/etc/module.xsd">
     <module name...