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Magento 2 Theme Design

You're reading from Magento 2 Theme Design Create stunning and responsive Magento 2 themes for your business

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785888229

Length 288 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

Magento

Concepts

Ecommerce

Authors (2):

J Miguel

Richard Carter

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Magento 2 Theme Design - Second Edition

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Introduction to Magento 2 FREE CHAPTER

2. Exploring Magento Themes

3. Magento 2 Theme Layout

4. Magento UI Library

5. Creating a Responsive Magento 2 Theme

6. Magento 2 Styles Debugging

7. Magento UI Components

8. Magento Layout Development

9. Magento 2 JavaScript

10. Social Media in Magento 2

11. Theme Development Best Practices

12. Magento Theme Distribution

Magento 2 JavaScript structure

The use of JavaScript in web application projects has evolved in recent years because of the functionalities, facilities, and portability that this technology provides to users.

The inclusion of the JavaScript files was made exclusively through insertion in the page headers, which has caused a big problem in performance and page loading.

In previous versions of Magento it was discussed in relation to good practice using the JavaScript and standardization of use of libraries, such as jQuery (http://jquery.com/) and Prototype (http://prototypejs.org/). In order to provide greater management power and performance of JavaScript, Magento 2 uses RequireJS (http://requirejs.org/) as a standard to load JavaScript libraries.

RequireJS is a JavaScript file and module loader and it implements the standard and Asynchronous Module Definition (AMD). This type of pattern allows JavaScript to run without it to be declared in a global scope, such as layout configuration files...

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Authors (2)

J Miguel

J Miguel

Fernando J. Miguel is a Certified Professional Scrum Master by the Scrum Alliance, with experience in Analysis and Web Application Development since 2003. He has been working with Project Development with Design Patterns, MVC, Object Oriented Programming and Agile. Fernando also has experience with Content Management Systems (CMS), Wordpress, Joomla, Magento 2, PHP, Java, Node.js, Android, SQL, NoSQL, Cloud Computing. Fernando has a bachelor degree at Information Systems (Centro Universitrio Mdulo - Brazil), specialization in Project Management / PMI-PMBOK (Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul - Brazil), specialization in Informatics on Health (Universidade Federal de So Paulo - Brazil) and currently he is pursuing a master's degree in Electronic Engineering Computer - Informatics at Instituto de Tecnologia e Aeronutica (ITA), one of the best technology institute in Brazil. Dedication To my grandmother Mildes and my mother Edneia, wherever they are, I'm sure they are very happy with my work. To my beloved wife Elizabete for the countless hours of patience with my work. Love you.

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Richard Carter

Richard Carter

Richard Carter is a seasoned front-end web developer who has worked with Magento since 2008. He lives in Newcastle upon Tyne in the North East of England. He is the founder of the e-commerce agency Peacock Carter, an e-commerce and web design agency based in the North East of England, and has worked for clients including the Scottish Government, City & Guilds, NHS, and the University of Edinburgh. Richard is the author of four books on Magento, including Magento Responsive Theme Design, and has written three further books on e-commerce and content management systems.

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