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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

Magento 2.0 theme structure

Magento 2.0 has a new approach toward managing its themes. Generally, the Magento 2.0 themes are located in the app/design/frontend/<Vendor>/ directory. This location differs according to the built-in themes, such as the Luma theme, which is located in vendor/magento/theme-frontend-luma.

The different themes are stored in separate directories, as in the following screenshot:

Magento 2.0 theme structure

Each vendor can have one or more themes attached to it. So, you can develop different themes inside the same vendor.

The theme structure of Magento 2.0 is illustrated as follows:

Magento 2.0 theme structure

How the Magento theme structure works is quite simple to understand: each <Vendor>_<Module> directory corresponds to a specific module or functionality of your theme. For example, Magento_Customer has specific .css and .html files to handle the Customer module of the Magento vendor. Magento handles a significant number of modules. So, I strongly suggest that you navigate to the vendor/magento/theme...

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