My Way To being a Magento Developper

In this repo I will list my progress in learning and preparing for being a Magento Certified Developper. I used the book Magento 2 Developers Guide as the main studying material. but I will not be limited to that.

Day 1:

Understanding the Platform Architecture

The Technology Stack
The archtectural layers
the top-level filesystem structure

Managing the Environment [Skipped]

Programming Concepts and Conventions

Composer
Service contracts
code generation
the var directory
Coding standards

Models and Collections

Creating a miniature module
Understanding the flow of schema and data scripts
Creating an install schema script (InstallSchema.php)
Creating an upgrade schema script (UpgradeSchema.php)
Creating an install data script (InstallData.php)
Creating an upgrade data script (UpgradeData.php)
Entity CRUD actions
Creating new entities
Managing collections

Using the Dependency Injection

The object manager
Dependency injection
Configuring class preferences
Using virtual types

Plugins

Creating a plugin
Using the before listener
Using the after listener
Using the around listener
The plugin sort order

Backend Development

Cron jobs
Notification messages
Session and cookies
Logging
The profiler
Events and observers
Cache(s)
Widgets
Custom variables
i18n
Indexer(s)

Frontend Development

Rendering flow
View elements
- Ui components
- Containers
- Blocks
- Block architecture and life cycle
- Templates
- Layouts
Themes
- Creating a new theme
Javascript
- Creating a custom JS component
CSS

The Web API

User Types
Authentication methods
REST versus SOAP
Hands-on with token-based authentication
Hands-on with OAuth-based authentication
OAuth-based Web API calls
Hands-on with session-based authentication
Creating custon Web APIs
- API call examples
  - The getById service method call examples
  - The getList service method call examples
  - The save (as new) service method call examples
  - The save (as update) service method call examples
  - The deleteById service method call examples
- Search Criteria Interface for list filtering

The Major Functional Areas

CMS management
- Managing blocks manually
- Managing blocks via code
- Managing blocks via API
- Managing pages manually
- Managing pages via code
- Managing pages via API
Catalog management
- Managing categories manually
- Managing categories via code
- Managing categories via API
- Managing products manually
- Managing products via code
- Managing products via API
Customer management
- Managing customers manually
- Managing customers via code
- Managing customers via API
- Managing customer address code
- Managing customer address via API
Products and customers import
The custom product types
Custom offline shipping methods
Custom offline payment methods

Testing

Types of tests
Unit testing
Integration testing
Static testing
Integrity testing
Legacy testing
Performance testing
Functional testing
Writing a simple unit test

Building a Module from Scratch

Module requirements
Registering a module
Creating a configuration file (config.xml)
Creating e-mail templates (email_templates.xml)
Creating a system configuration file (system.xml)
Creating access control lists (acl.xml)
Creating an installation script (InstallSchema.php)
Managing entity persistence (model, resource, collection)
Building a frontend interface
- Creating routes, controllers, and layout handles
- Creating blocks and templates
- Handling form submissions
Building a backend interface
- Linking the access control list and menu
- Creating routes, controllers, and layout handles
- Utilizing the grid widget
- Creating a grid column renderer
- Creating grid column options
- Creating controller actions
- Creating unit tests

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