In this post, we provide a complete overview of the Magento 2 technology stack. The new version of the popular ecommerce platform has been essentially revamped, so you will discover a lot of new features and requirements in comparison with 1.x. Below, we describe all major elements of the technology stack as well as provide some useful links. Continue Reading
Since Magento 2 introduces a bunch of brand-new features and improvements, it also has updated requirements related to hosting. Hence, solutions optimized for 1.X are no longer suitable for the new version of the ecommerce platform. Although they can still work with Magento 2, 1.X optimized hostings never provide the highest possible performance. That’s why we’d like to describe Magento 2 hosting services, but let’s discuss new system requirements first. Continue Reading
First of all, create a page for your grid (). Then, add a UI component in layout for view/adminhtml/layout/samplegrid_index_index.xml. Continue Reading
You can get the list of events/observers in Magento 2 in the \Magento\Framework\Event\Manager::dispatch() method. Since there is no access to the logger, you will have to add a logger instance in the constructor: Continue Reading
To render image in Magento 2 Adminhtml grids, first of all you have to add a grid column with a renderer block name as a parameter: Continue Reading
To add a custom Javascript file in head in Magento 2, use the following example: Continue Reading
While overriding block via preference, Magento 2 can show an error when you add a core registry in a construct method. Continue Reading
Youк popup window can be based on the following example: Continue Reading
Most entrepreneurs are always trying to find out all pros and cons of every new tool they are going to utilize, and ecommerce platforms are not the exception. Since nowadays there are tons of available solutions, it is hard to decide which one deserves attention. Therefore, we are here willing to help you and in the following post will describe Magento 2 in comparison with its closest competitor OpenCart. You can also find a more detailed comparison and the guide to the Magento 2 OpenCart migration here: How to Migrate from OpenCart to Magento 2 or Sync Data Between Them. Continue Reading
The following Magento 2 tutorial will help you upgrade script for a new version of your extension by adding new tables and columns to a database. Continue Reading
