Magento 2 Development – Become a Magento 2 Developer

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction and environment setup

Lecture 1: 3 ways to install Magento 2

Lecture 2: Developer mode, memory limit and the pub folder mistake

Lecture 3: Updating your Magento to its latest version with 3 commands

Lecture 4: The course's repository

Chapter 2: Introduction to Magento 2

Lecture 1: Sample products and sample data

Lecture 2: Folder's structure and gitbut-version differences

Lecture 3: Module's structure and what have changed since Magento 1

Lecture 4: Configuration files, deploy and configuration tips

Lecture 5: Going even deeper into the configurations

Chapter 3: Starting developing for Magento 2

Lecture 1: Deploy modes and their differences

Lecture 2: Deploy Production and troubleshooting

Chapter 4: Tools and Tips

Lecture 1: 2 Great tools

Lecture 2: XSDs files and autocomplete in XMLs

Lecture 3: Installing the first debug module via composer

Lecture 4: Playing with KnockoutJS

Lecture 5: Finding and opening a template file couldn’t be easier

Lecture 6: Boosting your bin/magento

Lecture 7: Web module generator – Use wisely

Lecture 8: Don't worry about cache cleaning and speed up your development

Chapter 5: Developing for a new Magento

Lecture 1: Creating our first module

Lecture 2: Creating a custom command

Lecture 3: Dependency Injection

Lecture 4: Plugins (Interceptors)

Lecture 5: Plugins – Hands on and examples

Lecture 6: Class Preference

Lecture 7: Observers: Examples and good practices

Chapter 6: Setup Scripts

Lecture 1: Types of Setup Scripts

Lecture 2: Install Data – Creating a new product attribute

Chapter 7: Controllers – Creating routes and pages in Magento 2

Lecture 1: Introduction to Controllers

Lecture 2: Creating a page from scratch (creating a Controller)

Lecture 3: Creating a controller in the admin, menus and ACL

Chapter 8: Layout XML – Where our visual changes begins

Lecture 1: How Magento builds and organize the pages elements

Lecture 2: Using LayoutXML in our controller and an introduction to Magento Blocks

Chapter 9: Small introduction to…

Lecture 1: RequireJS and JavaScript in Magento 2

Lecture 2: Front End Development – Creating or installing a theme

Chapter 10: Bonus Lessons

Lecture 1: Practical example-inventory integration/update (with sample module)

Lecture 2: setup:di:compile how it works and when to use

Chapter 11: Bonus Section – Configuring Magento 2 in the cloud

Lecture 1: Creating the server

Lecture 2: Logging in the SSH of the server

Lecture 3: Installing nginx webserver

Lecture 4: Installing and configuring MariaDB(MySQL) and Magento 2 database

Lecture 5: Installing PHP and its required Magento 2 modules

Lecture 6: PHP Basic configuration

Lecture 7: Installing composer

Lecture 8: Creating linux users and groups

Lecture 9: Installing Magento 2

Lecture 10: Configuring nginx web server

Lecture 11: Installing Sample data

Lecture 12: Partial performance results

Lecture 13: Installing and configuring Redis

Lecture 14: Opcache and some other Magento optimizations

Lecture 15: Installing and configuring Google's SSL (Lets Encrypt) in our Magento store

Lecture 16: Adding HTTP 2 and retesting performance

Lecture 17: Adding subdomain for my images

Lecture 18: Changing the game rules and getting an AAA on speed tests

Lecture 19: Final words and thoughts

Lecture 20: Installing RabbitMQ

Chapter 12: Congratulations! You're now a better Magento 2 Developer.

Lecture 1: Thank you very much!