Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide: Build better stores by extending Magento

Cover
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Understanding the Magento Architecture
	Technical requirements
	Installing Magento
	Modes
	Areas
	Request flow processing
	Modules
		Creating the minimal module
	Cache
	Dependency injection
		Argument injection
		Virtual types
		Proxies
		Factories
	Plugins
		The before plugin
		The around plugin
		The after plugin
	Events and observers
	Console commands
	Cron jobs
	Summary
Chapter 2: Working with Entities
	Technical requirements
	Understanding types of models
		Creating a simple model
		Methods worth memorizing
	Working with setup scripts
		The InstallSchema script
		The UpgradeSchema script
		The Recurring script
		The InstallData script
		The UpgradeData script
		The RecurringData script
	Extending entities
		Creating extension attributes
	Summary
Chapter 3: Understanding Web APIs
	Technical requirements
	Types of users
	Types of authentication
	Types of APIs
	Using existing web APIs
	Creating custom web APIs
	Understanding search criteria
	Summary
Chapter 4: Building and Distributing Extensions
	Technical requirements
	Building a shipping extension
	Distributing via GitHub
	Distributing via Packagist
	Summary
Chapter 5: Developing for Admin
	Technical requirements
	Using the listing component
	Using the form component
	Summary
Chapter 6: Developing for Storefront
	Technical requirements
	Setting up the playground
	Calling and initializing JS components
	Meet RequireJS
	Replacing jQuery widget components
	Extending jQuery widget components
	Creating jQuery widgets components
	Creating UI/KnockoutJS components
	Extending UI/KnockoutJS components
	Summary
Chapter 7: Customizing Catalog Behavior
	Technical requirements
	Creating the size guide
	Creating the same day delivery
	Flagging new products
	Summary
Chapter 8: Customizing Checkout Experiences
	Technical requirements
	Passing data to the checkout
	Adding order notes to the checkout
	Summary
Chapter 9: Customizing Customer Interactions
	Technical requirements
	Understanding the section mechanism
	Adding contact preferences to customer accounts
	Adding contact preferences to the checkout
	Summary
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Index