Magento 2 Books To Start Your Acquaintance With The Platform (For Developers & Merchants)

Below, we are going to collect all books related to Magento 2. We’ve decided to start this post with only a pair of Magento 2 books, but it will be updated as soon as new publications will be available. Probably, new Magento 2 guides and tutorials will see the light of day during 2016.

The best Magento books

Magento 2 Cookbook

Although we have our own Magento 2 Cookbook, we recommend you to pay attention to another one written by Ray Bogman and Vladimir Kerkhoff. This Magento 2 book offers 50 practical recipes aimed at realizing the full potential of the platform. If you are going to build a professional online store, Magento 2 Cookbook is a must. The book should be available on April 2016, for further information follow this link:

Download / Buy Magento 2 Cookbook

Getting Stuff Done with Magento 2

Alan Kent, a Magento chief architect, has started writing a series of books related to Magento 2. The goal of “Getting Stuff Done with Magento 2” is to provide alternative view on the Magento 2 development from the official DevDoc. Magento 2 Primer is already available for $2.99. As for further materials, the describe such topics as theming, PHP for Magento 2 developers, domain and service layers, presentation layers, Magento 2 deployment and configuration, commerce concepts of the platform, and omnichannel commerce.

Download / Buy Getting Stuff Done with Magento 2

Download / Buy Magento 2 Primer

Magento 2 Theme Web Page Assets

Magento 2 Theme Web Page Assets is another book by Alan Kent from his Getting Stuff Done with Magento 2 series. It focuses on on CSS, HTML, and JS page assets for Magento 2 themes. Want to succeed with with Magento 2 theme development with less stress and struggle? Spend $9.99 on this Magento 2 book.

Download / Buy Theme Web Page Assets Magento 2 Book

Magento 2 DIY. The Complete Guide

Magento 2 DIY is the second book by the Firebear team (the first one is “Magento DIY. The Complete Guide” and you can purchase it on Leanpub). In this Magento 2 book, we describe how to run a successful ecommerce store on the basis of the second version of Magento. The publication offers tons of useful tips and advices. Besides, it shows how to enhance current ecommerce opportunities of Magento 2 with the help of third party extensions, platforms, and services. The book is still in progress.

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Magento 2 Developers Guide

Magento 2 Developers Guide is another Magento 2 book which describes how to harness the power of the most recent version of Magento. It is available for preorder and will be published in 2016. And while Magento 2 DIY is first of all aimed at merchants, Magento 2 Developers Guide was written with coders in mind describing such topics as Magento 2 Web API and the development of custom modules.

Download / Buy Magento 2 Developers Guide

Learning Magento 2 Administration

This book is aimed at Magento merchants first of all. It describes how to master the Magento 2 admin in order to optimize your ecommerce store. Leverage all features that are available out-of-the-box, and you will increase sales. Bret Williams uses screenshots and detailed step-by-step guides to describe the Magento 2 backend in the smallest details.

Download / Buy Learning Magento 2 Administration

Mastering Magento 2

Mastering Magento 2 is another book that teaches how to leverage the default features in order to create a highly productive ecommerce storefront on the basis of the latest version of our favourite ecommerce platform. Bret Williams and Jonathan Bownds shed light on some little-known but vital techniques developed to get the most out of your Magento 2 installation.

Download / Buy Mastering Magento 2

Magento 2 Development Cookbook

Magento 2 Development Cookbook is aimed at developers and advanced merchants who want to know how all the things within the platform are done. The book teachest such basics as how to install a Magento 2 storefront with sample date and at the same time covers such aspects of development as the creation of custom grids, forms, and shipping modules as well as testing everything with automated tests.

Download / Buy Magento 2 Development Cookbook

Getting Started with Magento 2

Getting Started with Magento 2 sheds light on core differences between 2.x and 1.x. It describes major improvements and shows features that are available only in the latest version. By comparing the two platform generations, Silver Touch teaches how to master the latest one streamlining all its resources.

Download / Buy Getting Started with Magento 2

Magento 2 Development Essentials

In this book, Fernando J. Miguel teaches readers how to become reliable Magento 2 developers. The author tells how to develop and implement extensions, themes, and other solutions and explores main functionalities, resources, and system structure. Magento 2 Development Essentials might be a great starting point of your endless trip into the world of Magento 2.

Download / Buy Magento 2 Development Essentials

Magento 2 Theme Design

If you are looking for a book that can help you fully leverage the potential of the Magento 2 theme design, pay attention to this one. Also written by Fernando J. Miguel, it offers all the necessary theory combined with practical examples. Thus, you can effortlessly create you own outstanding themes on the basis of the illustrated use cases.

Download / Buy Magento 2 Theme Design

To be continued…