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Mastering Adobe Commerce Frontend

You're reading from  Mastering Adobe Commerce Frontend

Product type Book
Published in Mar 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837637072
Pages 402 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Jakub Winkler Jakub Winkler
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Setting Up the Local Environment 2. Chapter 2: Installing the Magento/Adobe Commerce Application 3. Chapter 3: Introduction to Adobe Commerce Theming 4. Chapter 4: The Layout System 5. Chapter 5: Working with Templates 6. Chapter 6: Styling an Adobe Commerce Theme 7. Chapter 7: Customizing Emails 8. Chapter 8: Introduction to JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks 9. Chapter 9: RequireJS and jQuery 10. Chapter 10: Knockout.js and UI Components 11. Chapter 11: Commonly Used Libraries Bundled with Adobe Commerce 12. Chapter 12: Storefront-Related Configuration in the Admin Panel 13. Chapter 13: Working with Magento CMS 14. Chapter 14: Frontend Optimization Techniques 15. Chapter 15: Common Tools that Help with Local Development 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

The Layout System

It’s time to get serious! In the earlier chapters, we prepared our local dockerized environment and installed Adobe Commerce (AC). We launched some CLI commands, and you learned a lot about the framework itself so that you can start customizing the platform and creating bespoke frontends for your trusted customers.

In this chapter, we will explore the Magento 2 layout system in detail. I will show you the basic concepts behind it (in short, layout eXtensible Markup Language (XML)), including its structure and the role of the layout files. We will examine the various types of blocks and containers that make up the layout system, and how they can be used to build custom pages. However, we will dig into templates a little bit more in Chapter 5, once we proceed to template systems.

A lot of developers say that the layout XML is the best thing in the entire Magento framework since Magento 1. In Magento 2, it has become even more advanced and allows us to do...

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