Magento 2: Theme Development

• An understanding of object-oriented programming
• MySQL experience

Audience

• Web Developers

Magento is an e-commerce platform written in PHP. With Magento, users are able to create and organize products, payment methods, shipping and more. Magento 2 as opposed to Magento offers improvements to modularity, flexibility, and extensibility to e-commerce solutions.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at web developers who wish to create a web application with Magento 2.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Master Magento 2 development patterns, design patterns, and approaches.
• Create and personalize themes in Magento 2.
• Implement customizations to Magento 2 functionality with extensions.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Introduction

Magento 2 in Depth

• Magento 2 architecture
• Components and modules
• Design patterns and ORM

Preparing the Development Environment

• Installing and configuring Magento 2
• Troubleshooting installation requirements

Module Creation and Customization

• Creating a module
• Versioning and handling a module
• Creating and filling a database
• Altering a database with Magento scripts
• Handling requests

Themes and Layouts

• Modifying with LESS
• Using URL developer tools
• Overriding a view
• Altering a layout
• Extending resources
• Relocating items
• Debugging a layout
• Creating a container
• Developing a theme skeleton
• Building a theme with or without a theme parent

UI Component Library

• Implementing UI components to a back-end
• Creating an admin grid
• Creating a form for item creation
• Extending UI components
• Working with checkout

Advanced Customizations

• Using dependency injection configuration
• Creating an observer
• Implementing plugins
• Working with Require.js to extend Javascript configurations

Summary and Conclusion