Magento 2 development essentials : get up and running with Magento 2 to create custom solutions, themes, and extensions effectively / Fernando J. Miguel.

Description based on online resource; title from cover (viewed March 15, 2016).

Includes index.

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Magento Fundamentals; XAMPP PHP development environment; XAMPP installation; XAMPP for Windows installation; XAMPP for Linux installation; XAMPP for OS X installation; Magento; Magento installation; Magento MVC architecture; Summary; Chapter 2: Magento 2.0 Features; The revolution of Magento 2.0; An introduction to the Magento order management system; Sales operations; A simplified checkout process; Orders; Payments; Promotions; Magento 2.0 command-line configuration

The command-line utilitySummary; Chapter 3: Working with Search Engine Optimization; Magento SEO management; Store configuration; SEO and searching; SEO catalog configuration; XML sitemap manager; Google Analytics tracking code; Optimizing Magento pages; CMS pages; Product pages; Category pages; Summary; Chapter 4: Magento 2.0 Theme Development -- the Developers' Holy Grail; The basic concepts of Magento themes; Magento 2.0 theme structure; The Magento Luma theme; Magento theme inheritance; CMS blocks and pages; Custom variables; Creating a basic Magento 2.0 theme

Creating and declaring a themeSimple product image configuration; Creating static files' directories; Creating a theme logo; Applying the theme; Summary; Chapter 5: Creating a Responsive Magento 2.0 Theme; The CompStore theme; Composer -- the PHP dependency manager; Installing Composer on Unix-like operating systems; Installing Composer on Windows; Building the CompStore theme; CSS preprocessing with LESS; Applying new CSS to the CompStore theme; Creating the CompStore logo; Applying the theme; Creating CompStore content; Customizing Magento 2.0 templates; Summary

Chapter 6: Write Magento 2.0 Extensions -- a Great Place to GoMagento development overview; Using the Zend framework; Magento 2.0 extension structure; Developing your first Magento extension; The Twitter REST API; The TweetsAbout module structure; Using TwitterOAuth to authenticate our extension; Developing the module; Controllers; Blocks; Observer; Views; CSS; Deploying the module; Magento Connect; Packaging and publishing your module; Summary; Chapter 7: Go Mobile with Magento 2.0!; Testing the website on different devices; The Google Chrome DevTools device mode; Changing the device preset

Network connectivityInspecting media queries; Viewing CSS; Adding custom devices; Responsive Web Designer tester; Adjusting the CompStore theme for mobile devices; The Magento 2.0 responsive design; The Magento UI; Implementing a new CSS mixin media query; Adjusting tweets about extensions for mobile devices; Summary; Chapter 8: Speeding up Your Magento 2.0; Magento Entity-Attribute-Value; Indexing and caching Magento; Indexing and re-indexing data; The Magento cron job; Caching; Fine-tuning the Magento hosting server; Selecting the right Magento hosting service; Apache web server deflation

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