Course Outline

Day I

Introduction to Magento

  • Quick description Magento 2
  • Community vs. Commerce Comparison
  • Pricing Magento Commerce
  • Magento Commerce Cloud
  • Differences from Magento 1

Construction Magento 2

  • MVVM pattern overview
  • Project structure
  • Dependency Management (composer, PSR-4 Autoloader)
  • Structure of a single module
  • Module registration
  • Discuss Websites, Store Groups, Store Views
    • Multiple stores in one instance Magento 2
    • Multilingualism
    • Config scopes

Advanced Magento 2 - Database

  • Configuration tables (settings, module versioning)
  • Verification of the module version in the database, creation of your own configuration in the administration panel, discussion of ACL
  • Setup Scripts
  • UpgradeSchema script
  • Persistence Layer
  • Creating a persistence layer (Model, ResourceModel, Collection)
  • EAV Pattern Overview
  • EAV in Magento2
  • EAV entity types in Magento2
  • Feature Sets
  • Extension attributes
  • Flat tables
  • Database sharding

Advanced Magento 2 - PHP

Managing class dependencies (Service Contract, discussion of Dependency Injection patterns, Dependency Inversion, discussion of how Dependency Injection works in M2, ObjectManager)

Code generation

  • Factory
  • Interceptor
  • Proxy

Magento 2 CLI

  • Function overview
  • Creating your own command to create model objects
  • Controllers in Magento 2
  • Creating your own frontend controller
  • Own logger in Magento 2
  • Ways to extend Magento - override, plugin (Interceptor pattern overview), event observation (Observer pattern overview)
  • Creating your own Observer and your own Event (in the controller) and a plugin on your own frontend controller and a logger for both classes

Day II

Advanced Magento 2 - frontend

  • Themes
  • Elementy frontend modules, layouts, blocks, view models
  • Creating a template, view model and displaying objects from the collection
  • Less Preprocessor
  • Adding LESS styles to the view
  • RequireJS
  • KnockoutJS
  • UI Components
  • Generating static files

Operating modes Magento 2

Session PHP

  • Ways to store sessions
  • Configuration Redis

Full Page Cache

  • FPC Magento2 (Files, Redis, Varnish)
  • Varnish Configuration
  • Hole punching

Cron in Magento 2

  • Operation overview
  • Own cronjob

Cache in Magento 2

  • Built-in types
  • Own cache

Indexers Magento 2

REST and SOAP APIs in Magento 2

  • Discussion of authentication methods
  • Overview of available methods
  • Defining your own API endpoints
  • Creating a Data Contract and Service Contract for the Repository, adding the get method from the Repository to the WebAPI

Integration tests, unit tests

Creating a listing and a form for model objects using UI Components

Block: deploy automation & monitoring & performance testing:

Deploy automation tools: GitLab CI/CD, GitLab Runner

How to safely deploy with zero downtime, while ensuring fast rollback

Monitoring Magento ─ New Relic

Efficiency:

Testing with LoadImpact. How to prepare scenarios and simulate production traffic.

Cache warming for Varnish

Requirements

Good PHP knowledge

 14 Hours

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