Magento2 frontend development

Magento 2 Frontend Development
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Kapil Dev Singh

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Content
1. Magento 2 and scope for frontend development
2. Elements & File Structure
3. Theme Building
○ New or Git clone
○ Naming convention
○ Registration
○ Deployment
○ Compiling
○ presentation layer

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Magento 2 and scope for frontend development
● Magento 2 means Magento now onwards
● e-Commerce, MVC, CMS, PHP, MySQL
○ Magento Backend
○ Magento Frontend
○ Magento Development
● Frontend is described independent section and has a vast scope for frontend
developers.
Get involved as a resource than a support.
● Responsibilities of writing code and setting layouts and design proper.

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Elements
● Vendor, Theme and Module
● Vendor - core modules of magento resides in folder
○ Core Modules
○ Default Blank Theme
■ Core theme, based on RWD
○ Default Luma Theme
■ Demo theme provided and extended version of Blank Theme

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New or Git clone
● Install from ZIP file
● Install using composer(recommended)
○ Composer - Dependency Manager in PHP
○ Access Keys - Install and update Magento packages/extensions Bought from marketplace
○ The permissions - Owner, webuser and end user
● Create Database in phpmyadmin
● Run Magento on web browser and follow the installation steps
● Run deploy command and provide permission
>_ your_magento_dir > php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy -f
>_ your_magento_dir > sudo chmod -R 777 var/ pub/ generated/

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File Structure
app - All Custom Modules will go in
/design/ - Theme directories
app/design/frontend/vendor/themeName
/code/ - Develop custom Magento code
/etc/env.php
bin - Magento command line script
lib - Separately packed libraries from Magento core
pub - All static file, Publicly accessible files
var - caches,logs and minified compiled template files
vendor – core modules defined in composer.json
(If magento is installed using composer)

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Declare New Theme
{{magento_root}} > app > design > frontend > vendor > theme_dir >
theme.xml
<theme xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:Config/etc/theme.xsd
">
<title>New theme</title>
<parent>Magento/Luma</parent>
<media>
<preview_image>media/preview.jpg</preview_image>
</media>
</theme>

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Register Theme
{{magento_root}} > app > design > frontend > vendor > theme_dir >
registration.php
<?php
/**
* Copyright © 2015 Magento. All rights reserved.
* See COPYING.txt for license details.
*/
MagentoFrameworkComponentComponentRegistrar::register(
MagentoFrameworkComponentComponentRegistrar::THEME,
'frontend/<Vendor>/<theme>',
__DIR__
);

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Configure Theme
In Admin, go to CONTENT > Design > Configuration. A Design Configuration page is opened. It
contains a grid with the available configuration scopes

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Configure Theme
In the configuration record corresponding to your store view, click Edit. The page with design
configuration for the selected scope is opened

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Include pre compliled Stylesheet/ CSS
Go to
Theme_dir > moduel_dir > layout > default_head_blocks.xml
Place the file in
Theme_dir > web >
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configur
ation.xsd">
<head>
<css src="css/owl-carousel.min.css" />
<css src="css/custom.css" />
<script src="js/wow.min.js"/>
</head>
</page>

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Environment Setup
>_ cd projectName
>_ projectname> php bin/magento
>_ projectname> php bin/magento deploy:mode:show
>_ projectname> php bin/magento deploy:mode:set developer
>_ projectname> php bin/magento cache:flush
>_ projectname> php bin/magento cache:clean
>_ projectname> php bin/magento setup:upgrade
>_ projectname> php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy -f
>_ projectname> php bin/magento dev:template-hints:enable
>_ projectname> sudo chmod -R 777 var/ pub/ generated/

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Grunt
/***** Ubuntu command for Node Js Installation *****************/
>_ sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
/*********************************************************/
>_ projectname> npm install grunt grunt-cli
>_ projectname> npm install
>_ projectname> npm update

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Add theme to grunt configuration
srctheme: {
area: 'frontend',
name: 'Ranosys/srctheme',
locale: 'en_US',
files: [
'css/styles-m',
'css/styles-l'
],
dsl: 'less'
},
>_ your_magento_dir > grunt exec:<theme>
>_ your_magento_dir > sudo chmod -R 777
var/ pub/ generated/
>_ your_magento_dir > grunt less:<theme>
dev > tools > grunt > configs > theme.js

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Less files
● _theme.less - override variable and create own theme variables
● _module.less - overwrite variables and styles ( new declarations )
● _extend.less - inherit parent styles, override existing styles
● _ui-component_extend.less -
○ _colors_extend.less
○ _typography_extend.less
○ _minicart_extend.less
● Import component extend files in to _extend.less using @import
@import 'module/_minicart_extend.less';
@import 'module/_cart_extend.less';

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Fall backs ( Hierarchy )
● Custom theme module
● app/code custom modules (if applicable)
● Parent theme module
● Parent’s Parent theme module
● Magento core modules( Layouts XML and phtml files)
● lib/web directory

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Fall backs ( Hierarchy )

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Page Layout and Page Configuration
● Page Layout - Describe page wireframe, the outer structure (1 column, 2 column-left etc)
Core module - module_dir > view > frontend > page_layout
Theme DIR - theme_dir > Module_dir > page_layout
● Page Configuration - Declaration of the content and its meta information (Header, Section etc)
Core module - module_dir > view > frontend > layout
Theme DIR - theme_dir > Module_dir > layout
● Same fallback mechanism works for the template(.phtml) files
Core module - module_dir > view > frontend > templates
Theme DIR - theme_dir > Module_dir > templates

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Static Block, Widget, XML (Layouts)
● Static Block - small sections add or move separately
● Container - Structural element, use to create html elements by XML
<referenceContainer name="page.wrapper">
<container name="bs.hp.row" as="bs_hp_row"
label="Bootstrap HomePage Main Category Row" htmlTag="div"
htmlClass="src-home-cat-block" before="main.content">
<block class="MagentoCmsBlockBlock" name="category_promo">
<arguments>
<argument name="block_id" xsi:type="string">category_promo</argument>
</arguments>
</block>
</container>
</referenceContainer>

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<move element="store.settings.language" destination="header.container"
as="store_settings_language"/>
as="store_settings_language" before="breadcrumb"/>
as="store_settings_language" after="-"/>
<referenceBlock name="block_name" remove="true"/>
<referenceContainer name="content">
<block class="VendorModuleBlockTestTest" as="testali"
template="test/testali.phtml"/> </block>
</referenceContainer>

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