Blog – Magento 2
How to install the official Magento 2 language pack
The official Magento 2 language packs, which can be found on GitHub at https://github.com/magento-l10n, are relatively unknown so far. The purpose of this article is to increase awareness and make the installation easier. My colleague Sonja has already written a blog...
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?
PWAs have become an indispensable part of my everyday life. In the conversations I have with shop operators and e-commerce managers of online shops, there is always the big question: When can I finally change my frontend? And which technology should I use?In this...
How to contribute to Magento 2 translations
Magento 2 is built for international ecommerce. In order to provide the best user experience, translations need some support from the community. Here is how you can help.
Make Magento 2 small again
With version 2.3.0, Magento includes about 200 internal PHP packages (in the "magento" namespace) plus more than a hundred external PHP packages. These numbers have grown a lot in the last few releases, especially with several packages for the GraphQL integration and...
Resolving Session Bottleneck in Magento AJAX Requests
In a Magento 2 project we monitor with Tideways, we noticed a recurring bottleneck at session_start(), especially in the AJAX requests that load customer data. The issue is that simultaneous requests that use the same session will block each other, causing them to...
Why you should not use @escapeNotVerified in Magento templates
Did you ever wonder, what @escapeNotVerified is doing all over the place in Magento templates? I've often seen it blindly copied from core code. Don't do this! Let me explain: First, there is a good overview by Magento architect Alex Paliarush @paliarush on...
About the Magento 2 Certified Professional Developer PLUS exam
In November 2018, Magento presented a new certification: Magento 2 Certified Professional Developer Plus. It's aimed at developers and architects with at least two years of experience with Magento 2, so it's a higher level than the Magento 2 Certified Professional...
Magento 1 or Magento 2? A Guidebook
Since November 2015, when Magento 2.0 was released, we have to ask ourselves: Which system should we use for our Magento projects - Magento 1 or Magento 2? Or a totally different system? There is no clear and simple answer to that - the decision depends on many...
Magento 2: Automatic Code Quality Check with GrumPHP
An important part of good code quality is the compliance with coding standards. The following rules can be part of the coding standards: Naming of variables and functions Tabs or spaces Positions of braces Allowed blank lines Allowed line length Maximum code...
Removing unused core modules from Magento 2 – the right way
Inspired by a tweet by Erik Hansen, I take up the opportunity to write down a technique which is used in our projects frequently. I have first seen it introduced by my colleague Fabian Schmengler. As described in our article Cut load times by up to 40% – Why and How...
ExtDN Extension Quality Working Group & Community Hangout
This week, the "extension quality" working group of ExtDN hosted their first community hangout, open for anyone interested to join. This blog post is going to be a short recap and also an introduction to the initiative. About ExtDN The Magento...
Magento 2.2 and above: Simplify working with testing and development environments
When you import a database to a test or staging system, configuration settings need to be changed. To avoid this error-prone task, you can store the relevant config data in the code instead.
Test Smell: Copy and Paste
When writing tests, the use of copy & paste is even more tempting than when you code. Here is a solution to avoid the duplication.
Decorators for Magento Templates
A decorator is a class that wraps another class, implements the original interface, delegates method calls to the original class, but may modify the return values or add additional methods. The Decorator design pattern is one of the original design patterns for object...
View Models in Magento 1 and 2
Magento 2.2.0 and 2.2.1 made some interesting changes to the layout system, with the goal to make the inheritance based block system redundant: all blocks are automatically considered of the “Template” type if not specified otherwise classes can be injected via layout...
Reacticon: New Hope for Magento and PWA?
My review of the first Magento and Progessive Web App (PWA) related Reacticon conference
Magento Shop Audits – independent analysis of your store
For some time now, our company has run individual audits of Magento 1 and Magento 2 based online stores. Some of these shop audits happen in the process of taking over a running project: before we get to work, we do the shop audit in order to find out about the...
Magento API Tests and Continuous Integration
Recently I set up Bitbucket Pipelines as CI for the DEITY Magento API module (background: DEITY: Technical Overview) This was an interesting challenge, since I usually only run unit tests and integration tests on platforms like Bitbucket Pipelines, Travis CI or...
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...
Ever since the release of Magento 2 in November 2015, much has changed for this e-commerce platform. New versions, new features and partnerships, and a different approach to collaborations with the community keep us moving. Although the documentation of Magento 2 is much more extensive and helpful than it was the case for Magento 1, there are still specific topics to cover – which we do here, in order to help others.
Complementary descriptions of default features in Magento 2, examples of how to use these features, reports of the interaction between different extensions or tips and tricks for the development with this complex software can be found in this chapter of our blog.