Blog – Frontend
Faster Shops with modern image types: an OpenSource module for Hyvä and Magento
An important part of performance optimization is about images. If a shop displays huge JPG images, the mobile performance will drop significantly if the images are not optimized. On the other hand, if images are optimized correctly, the shop will be faster, and the...
Magento 2 Frontend with Hyvä – our preliminary conclusion
Now that we have the first six months with Hyvä Themes behind us and the first projects are already live, we want to share our experiences and show the advantages that we have noticed in the development with the new Magento 2 frontend. In particular the shop...
News about Hyvä Themes
Hyvä 1.1 is available About a month and a half after the release of version 1.0 of Hyvä Themes, the updated version is available, which includes new features. We want to take this as an opportunity to take a look at what has happened around Hyvä Themes in the...
Curtain up for our client: Die Ballondrucker
Colourful diversity united in one shop Die Ballondrucker combine a large selection of balloons and matching accessories in their online shop, as well as the possibility to individually design balloons with the balloon print designer. For private occasions, company...
Maintain Maintainability in Utility-First Frameworks in the example of Tailwind CSS
The new Magento 2 Frontend Hyvä uses Tailwind CSS, the most popular utility-first framework, for styling. While working with Tailwind CSS, having some general rules of thumb helps a lot with clarity, reusability and readbility of code. Utility-first frameworks like...
Hyvä Themes – which features are already supported by the new Magento frontend and what is planned
Hyvä Themes is currently under development and we are working hard on the new Magento frontend to make the first version available soon. If you are interested, you can sign up for the waiting list for Hyvä Themes. Here you will find an overview of features already...
From the idea to the realisation of Hyvä Themes
Having an idea is one thing, but actually turning it into reality is something completely different. How the idea of Hyvä Themes emerged in the first place and which events led to the realisation of Hyvä Themes is told in this article. First of all: Sometimes it takes...
Hyvä Themes and the Magento frontend problem
Magento's major strengths include its multi-store functionality and customizability; from a developer's point of view these are probably mainly the Dependency Injection and the API support. Unfortunately, the frontend is not one of its strengths: both the traditional...
Hyvä – the new Frontend for Magento
The future of the Magento Frontend After a few months of work in a quiet little room, the big secret is finally out. At Reacticon 2020, our colleague Willem Wigman presented our latest project at the final session of the conference: Hyvä, the new frontend for Magento....
The “ultimate guide” to Magento 2 JavaScript Bundling
First part of the “Ultimate guide to Magento 2 JavaScript bundling”. An introduction to Front End performance and benchmarks of available solutions.
Magento 2 front end performance settings – Magento 2 bundling patches
Second part of the “Ultimate guide to Magento 2 JavaScript bundling”. Set up a basis for performance testing with default Magento 2. Get patches needed for Magento 2 JavaScript bundling.
How to bundle Magento 2 with Baler or M2 DevTools extension
Third part of the “Ultimate guide to Magento 2 JavaScript bundling”. Learn how to implement Magento 2 bundling with Baler or with the M2 DevTools Toolbar.
The integer_net solution to Magento 2 JavaScript bundling
Fourth and final part of the “Ultimate guide to Magento 2 JavaScript bundling”. Learn how we got the best possible Lighthouse Audit score for Magento 2.
Magento Page Builder – Introduction for Developers
Page Builder was introduced with Magento Commerce 2.3.1. It's the successor of "Bluefoot", an advanced, intuitive and very flexible CMS tool for individual layouts and content elements. A typical task for a developer is to create a new content element with a few...
PWA! But when? Yesterday? Now? Tomorrow?
Update from December 08, 2020: Practical experience from several projects has shown that in our opinion the PWA approach is not suitable for all Magento projects. With Hyvä we have therefore developed a new approach for a high-performance and above all simpler...
Reacticon v2 – Today We’ll Create A New Future
Now that the dust has settled after the inaugural Magento Live Europe conference in Barcelona, it’s a good time to recapitulate a smaller but evenly important event that happened just before in Eindhoven, the Netherlands: Reacticon v2 What is Reacticon? A conference...
Reaction v2 – the second Magento PWA conference in Eindhoven
Only 6 months after Reacticon, its successor Reacticon v2 is about to happen. We look forward to an interesting specialised conference in the Netherlands.
Reacticon: New Hope for Magento and PWA?
My review of the first Magento and Progessive Web App (PWA) related Reacticon conference
A special Magento event – Reacticon
Over the last couple of years, the number of Magento related events has grown a lot. Meet Magento is all over the world, meetups regularly take place in many cities. In addition to these general events that often cater both business people and developers, we see...
DEITY – Technical Overview
Update from December 08, 2020: Practical experience from several projects has shown that in our opinion the PWA approach is not suitable for all Magento projects. With Hyvä we have therefore developed a new approach for a high-performance and above all simpler...
In the category “Frontend” you find blog posts that involve anything visible to the store’s customers in the frontend, as well as configurations and adjustments that have an immediate impact on visible parts of your store. The texts about User Interfaces (UI), User Experience (UX), optimization of navigation and technical aspects, such as a frontend development workflow to work on templates for Magento 2 are listed in this part of our blog.
Here, you can also read about our latest works with Progressive Web Apps (PWA) and Deity, a headless approach that uses the API of Magento 2 or another ecommerce platform.