This document provides an overview of Magento 2 including its goals, release approach, modernized technical stack, improved performance and scalability, streamlined customizations, easier installation and upgrades, and high code quality and testing standards. The key goals of Magento 2 are to use a modern technical stack, improve performance and scalability, streamline customizations, simplify external integrations, and make installation and upgrades easier.

2. Magento 2 Overview

3. Max Yekaterynenko
Sr. Development Manager, Magento
Magento 2 Engineering Lead
maksek_ua

4. Platform Goals

5. Release Approach
2014 2015 2016 2017
2.0
Dev Beta
2.0
Merchant Beta
2.0
Merchant GA
2.x
Ongoing Releases
2.0
Dev RC

6. MAGENTO 2: PLATFORM GOALS
M2

7. Modern tech stack
Improved performance & scalability

8. Streamline customizations
Simplify external integrations

9. Easier installation & upgrades
High code quality & testing

10. Magento 2 Overview

11. GitHub
magento/magento2

12. Modern tech stack

13. PHP

14. jQuery

15. HTML5 CSS3 Preprocessor

16. RequireJS

17. Coding Standards
• PSR-0 (Autoloading standard)
• PSR-1 (Basic Coding standard)
• PSR-2 (Coding Style Guide)

18. Tech Stack

19. Improved performance & scalability

20. Page Caching
• Full Page Caching out of box in CE
• Cache Applications:
• Built-in Application: Filesystem/Redis
• Varnish
• Private/public content
• Invalidation logic

21. Indexing
• Refactored: Catalog, Price, EAV, Stock, URL Rewrite,
Target Rule Indexers
• Partial indexing
• Work in background (do not block processes)
• No manual re-index required
• Materialized View (Mview)

22. Streamline customizations

23. DI
• Object Manager (Dependency Injection Container)
• Configurable di.xml
• Compiler

24. Mage Class
God Class “Mage::” is eliminated
Mage::getModel('Magento_Customer_Model_Address')

25. Interceptors & Plugins
• Before method
• After method
• Around method
• Sorting

26. Magento Framework

27. Modularity: View
Block
Rendering
Framework/
View
Template
Engine
Layout
• Library Component View
• Independent from
Infrastructure
Modules
• Resolved dependency on
Store
• Abstract blocks & widgets
in Library

28. Modularity: App
Front
Controller
Framework/
App
Request/
Response
Bootsrapping
Routers
• Library Component App
• Resolved global
dependency from Core
modules

29. Modularity: Admin
*{Module}/
Adminhtml
Magento/
Adminhtml
Catalog/
Adminhtml
• Global Adminhtml module
Customer/
Adminhtml
is eliminated
• Modules are monatomic

30. Modularity: Catalog
Groupped
Product
Catalog
Configurable
Product
Layered
Navigation
• New Modules
• Enable/Disable
• Delete from code

31. Modularity
• Sales: extracted Recurring Payment
• Shipping: Carrier, decoupled shipping methods
• Checkout – extracted Term&Conditions and
Multishipping
• Payments – OfflinePayment, decoupling payment
methods

32. Price Logic
• Price logic decomposition per price
type
• Price Interfaces
• Price decoupled from Tax and
Weee
• Price “adjustment”

33. i18n
• Global function __()
• Phrase
• RendererInterface
• Composite, Inline, Placeholder, Translate
• [Module]/i18n

34. Layouts
• Layouts, templates (view) in Modules
• Layout file responsible only for single page/block
• Validation Layout XML (XML Schema)
• Extend Layout
• Merging Layouts
• Override Layout
• Page Types

35. Magento UI Library
• Upgradability
• Consistency
• Extensive list of reusable
components
• Styling and design best
practices
• Good documentation
• Simplifies customisation

36. Magento UI Documentation
pub/lib/css/docs

37. Blank Theme
Modern Technologies Mobile First Responsive Design
Built with Magento UI library Compiled with Built-in PHP
LESS Compiler
WCAG 2.0 AA Compliant

38. Multilevel Theme Inheritance
• Simplifies customization
• Flexible store design
• Allows store to be special
• Maintainability
• Less code duplication

39. Simplify external integrations

40. Service Layer and Web API
• Service Data Transfer Object
• Service Versioned Strategy
• Service Layer’ed
• Customer
• Catalog (+ CatalogInventory)
• Tax & Price
• WebAPI Framework: Consuming Services via REST/
SOAP

41. Easier installation & upgrades

42. Composer and Deployment Tool
• Deployment Tool
• Composer
magento/magento-composer-installer

43. High code quality & testing

44. • Full set of tests: Unit, Integration, Static, Legacy
• Functional Test – Magento Testing Framework (MTF)
• Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery
• Performance Testing
• Regression Testing
magento/mtf

45. Magento 2 and Team

46. Magento 2 Domains
Commerce
Services
Merchant
Experience
Platform
Services

47. Functional Areas
Payments Shipping OMS Customer
Catalog Promotions CMS Admin-Site
API Lib Performance
& Tools Mobile
MTF WebDev

48. Teams

49. Teams

50. GitHub
magento/magento2

51. Contacts
max@magento.com maksek_ua

52. Thank you