Magento 2 Developer's Guide

Harness the power of Magento 2 – The most recent version of the world's favourite e-Commerce platform for your online store

Key Features

• Set up, configure, and power up your Magento environment from development to production
• Master the use of Web API to communicate with the Magento system and create custom services
• Create custom modules from scratch to extend the core functionality of the Magento system

Book Description

What you will learn

• Set up the development and production environment of Magento 2
• Understand the new major concepts and conventions used in Magento 2
• Build a miniature yet fully-functional module from scratch to manage your e-commerce platform efficiently
• Write models and collections to manage and search your entity data
• Dive into backend development such as creating events, observers, cron jobs, logging, profiling, and messaging features
• Get to the core of frontend development such as blocks, templates, layouts, and the themes of Magento 2
• Use token, session, and Oauth token-based authentication via various flavors of API calls, as well as creating your own APIs
• Get to grips with testing Magento modules and custom themes, which forms an integral part of development

Who this book is for

This book is intended primarily for intermediate to professional-level PHP developers who are interested in Magento development. For backend developers, several topics are covered that will enable you to modify and extend your Magento 2 store. Frontend developers will also find some coverage on how to customize the look of the site in the frontend.