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Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide

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  1. Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright and Credits
  4. Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide
  5. Packt Upsell
  6. Why subscribe?
  7. Packt.com
  8. Contributors
  9. About the author
  10. About the reviewer
  11. Packt is searching for authors like you
  12. Table of Contents
  13. Preface
  14. Who this book is for
  15. What this book covers
  16. To get the most out of this book
  17. Download the example code files
  18. Code in Action
  19. Conventions used
  20. Get in touch
  21. Reviews
  22. Understanding the Magento Architecture
  23. Technical requirements
  24. Installing Magento
  25. Modes
  26. Areas
  27. Request flow processing
  28. Modules
  29. Creating the minimal module
  30. Cache
  31. Dependency injection
  32. Argument injection
  33. Virtual types
  34. Proxies
  35. Factories
  36. Plugins
  37. The before plugin
  38. The around plugin
  39. The after plugin
  40. Events and observers
  41. Console commands
  42. Cron jobs
  43. Summary
  44. Working with Entities
  45. Technical requirements
  46. Understanding types of models
  47. Creating a simple model
  48. Methods worth memorizing
  49. Working with setup scripts
  50. The InstallSchema script
  51. The UpgradeSchema script
  52. The Recurring script
  53. The InstallData script
  54. The UpgradeData script
  55. The RecurringData script
  56. Extending entities
  57. Creating extension attributes
  58. Summary
  59. Understanding Web APIs
  60. Technical requirements
  61. Types of users
  62. Types of authentication
  63. Types of APIs
  64. Using existing web APIs
  65. Creating custom web APIs
  66. Understanding search criteria
  67. Summary
  68. Building and Distributing Extensions
  69. Technical requirements
  70. Building a shipping extension
  71. Distributing via GitHub
  72. Distributing via Packagist
  73. Summary
  74. Developing for Admin
  75. Technical requirements
  76. Using the listing component
  77. Using the form component
  78. Summary
  79. Developing for Storefront
  80. Technical requirements
  81. Setting up the playground
  82. Calling and initializing JS components
  83. Meet RequireJS
  84. Replacing jQuery widget components
  85. Extending jQuery widget components
  86. Creating jQuery widgets components
  87. Creating UI/KnockoutJS components
  88. Extending UI/KnockoutJS components
  89. Summary
  90. Customizing Catalog Behavior
  91. Technical requirements
  92. Creating the size guide
  93. Creating the same day delivery
  94. Flagging new products
  95. Summary
  96. Customizing Checkout Experiences
  97. Technical requirements
  98. Passing data to the checkout
  99. Adding order notes to the checkout
  100. Summary
  101. Customizing Customer Interactions
  102. Technical requirements
  103. Understanding the section mechanism
  104. Adding contact preferences to customer accounts
  105. Adding contact preferences to the checkout
  106. Summary
  107. Other Books You May Enjoy
  108. Leave a review - let other readers know what you think

Understanding the Magento Architecture

Building web shops is a challenging and tedious job, and even more so if a platform you are working on is limited via features, extensibility, and the overall ecosystem it provides. Choosing the right platform can often make the difference between a project's success or failure. The abundance of available e-commerce software, from SaaS to self-hosted solutions, does not really make it an easy choice.

The Magento e-commerce platform has been around for over 10 years now. With its first stable release dating back to March 2008, it immediately caught the attention of developers as an extensible and feature-rich open source platform. Over time, Magento established itself as not just a stunning technical and feature-rich platform, but as a robust ecosystem as well. By allowing developers to validate their real-world skills through the Magento certification program, certain standards have been put into effect, making it easier for merchants to better recognize their solution partners. Training courses have been further provided for other roles in e-commerce business as well, such as merchants, marketers, system administrators, and business analysts.

In this chapter, we will take a look at some of the key must-knows about Magento:

  • Installing Magento
  • Modes
  • Areas
  • Request flow processing
  • Modules
  • Cache
  • Dependency injection
  • Plugins
  • Events and observers
  • Console commands
  • Cron jobs

To keep things compact as we move forward, let's assume the following throughout this book:

  • We are working on the magelicious.loc project
  • We are referring to our project root directory as <PROJECT_DIR>
  • We are referring to the <PROJECT_DIR>/app/code/Magelicious directory as <MAGELICIOUS_DIR>
  • We are referring to Magento's vendor/magento directory as <MAGENTO_DIR>
  • We have a running LAMP/MAMP/WAMP stack (Apache, MySQL, PHP) that is compliant with Magento's requirements
  • We have a Composer package manager installed
  • We have access to crontab (Linux, MacOS) or Task Scheduler (Windows)
AMPPS is an easy to use, all in one LAMP/MAMP/WAMP software stack from Softaculous, which enables Apache, MySQL, and PHP. With AMPPS, you can even install Magento 2.x by the click of a button, which means it comes loaded with all the right PHP extensions. While it isn't suited for production purposes, it comes in handy for quickly kicking the development environment. See http://www.ampps.com/ for more information. Consult the devdocs (https://devdocs.magento.com) for Magento technology stack requirements.