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Magento 2 Coding Kickstart

Introduction

Welcome! Prerequisites, focus & outcome
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Application & Environment Setup

Directory structure of a Magento project
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All about Magento application modes
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Enabling developer mode for Magento development
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Set up Composer auth credentials for the Magento Marketplace
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Install & deploy Magento sample data
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About the Magento config, environment & version control
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Set up additional Magento development tools
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Caching

Enabling & disabling cache types in Magento
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Cleaning & flushing Magento caches
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Enable automatic Magento cache clearing for development
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Module Basics

Magento local module directory naming conventions
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Magento third-party module directory naming conventions
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Magento module registration file
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Magento module definition file
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Enable a Magento module
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Exercise: Create your own custom Magento module
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Exercise: Install a third-party Magento module
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Create a composer.json file for your module
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Routing

Built-in Magento routers
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The anatomy of a Magento URL
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Define a new custom route in Magento
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Create a controller action in Magento
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Exercise: Create a controller action for the blog post detail view
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Reserved keywords in Magento controller actions
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Dependency Injection

Dependency injection & Magento’s Object Manager
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Why the new keyword can’t be used to create objects in Magento
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Create a new object in Magento using Object Manager
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Create an object with dependency injection using a singleton
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About generated code in Magento
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How Magento maps interface implementations with XML
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Interfaces & Factories

What are service contracts?
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Create an object with dependency injection using an interface
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Create an object with dependency injection using a factory
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Exercise: Create a page response for the blog post list view
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Redirect a Magento controller action with a factory
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Forward a Magento controller action with a factory
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Views

Magento page layouts & containers
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Magento core layouts & blocks
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Custom Magento layout handles
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Create a custom layout XML file
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Create a new template file in Magento
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Display a Magento template in a block
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Challenge: Create a template & render it in a block with layout XML
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Review: Create a template & render it in a block with layout XML
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Change the page layout of a Magento view
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Locate block templates in Magento
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Locate block nodes in Magento layout XML files
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Exercise: Locate a template & related block node in layout XML
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Move Magento blocks on a page
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Remove or control the display of a Magento block
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Override & translate Magento template text with i18n
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Override an existing Magento block template
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Render & wrap Magento children blocks with containers
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Exercise: Magento module cleanup
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Update templates with placeholder data
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Database Models

About Magento’s declarative schema
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Create a new database table
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Automatically remove database properties on updates
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Magento Model vs ResourceModel vs Collection
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Create a model
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Create a resource model
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Create a collection
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Repositories & Data Interfaces

What is a service contract?
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Create a data transfer object (DTO) interface
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Update a model to implement a DTO interface
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Define a model preference for a DTO interface
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Create a repository interface
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Create a repository
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Saving & Querying Data

Load data with a resource model
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Save data with a resource model
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Delete data with a resource model
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Write a setup patch data script
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Save data using a repository
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Execute setup patch data scripts
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Exercise: Write another setup data patch script
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Create a ViewModel
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Pass data to a template using a ViewModel
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Exercise: Pass data to another template using a ViewModel
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Exercise: Create a new function within a ViewModel
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Load data using a collection
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Load data using a repository
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Escape template data to prevent XSS security vulnerabilities
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Expose a REST API endpoint using a repository
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Design Patterns

Create and dispatch an event
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Listen to an event with an observer
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What is a plugin or interceptor?
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Use a before plugin to modify function parameters
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Use an after plugin to modify the result of a function
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Use an around plugin to silence a function
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Override a class using a preference
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Conclusion

Downloadable archive of modules
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Next steps for implementing Magento fundamentals
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Course feedback & certificate for the Magento 2 Coding Kickstart course
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Built-in Magento routers

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