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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 extension structure


Magento 2.0 is a modular system as you can see. That is why it is important to maintain all the code organized, and it couldn't be different with Magento extensions. In previous chapters you saw all the directory structure of Magento, but now let's give special attention to the basic Magento module file structure:

In order to create a new extension according to the preceding image, we must create the same directory structure. However, how will they interact with the Magento system?

Some of these directories have an important role to play in the Magento system. They are directories that are responsible for providing basic functionalities and coupling between modules and the Magento system:

  • Block: Blocks are View classes that are responsible for providing visualization layers between the logical and frontend layer.

  • Controller: These control all the actions of the Magento. Web servers process the requests and Controller redirects them to specific modules according...

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