Hello everyone!

My name is Max Pronko, I am a Magento Expert, Developer and Consultant. I was looking for a place with a high quality content for Magento developers. While searching and reading through different social media platforms and other websites I’ve realized that it will be great to have a single list with technical tutorials, tools, news around Magento platform. That is how I came up with the idea to start a digest for developers called “Magento Tech Digest – News, Tutorials and Tools”.

In this Digest you can find hand-picked tutorials, how-to articles, videos, tools and other interesting resources for developers. I also plan to share most interesting and highly discussed pull requests and issues in the Magento 2 repository. The Magento Tech Digest is going to be published every 2 weeks.

News and Releases

• Magento 2.2-RC2.1 release is ready for testing. Read Getting The Magento 2.2 Release Candidate via Composer post to get started.
• Magento 2.1.8 has been released. Read all the changes in the Release Notes 2.1.8 CE document.
• PHP 7.2.0 Beta 2 released by Remi Collet
• Magento Connect is Moving to Marketplace by Maura Cyrus

Learn Magento 2

General

• Getting The Magento 2.2 Release Candidate via Composer by John Hughes
• Magento 2.2 backward incompatible changes by Magento
• You, me and Magento by David Manners
• The Proposed Magento Persistence Layer by Alan Kent
• Magento 2 tutorial: site performance tips by Rupert Jones
• Magento 2.1.8 & The Power of Community Contribution by Ian Cassidy
• Production Ready Microservices In Action by Venkatachalam Rangasamy. This post isn’t about Magento 2, but I highly recommend to read it.

PHP

• ViewModels in Magento 2 by Jisse Reitsma
• Faking a Composer Repo by Alan Kent
• PHP 7 Syntax usage for Magento Contribution by Igor Miniailo
• Validation of Domain Entities in Magento by Igor Miniailo
• Reservations (design document created in the scope of multi source inventory project) by Igor Miniailo
• Magento 2 CLI scripts translations by Igor Furseev

JavaScript

• Easily add custom JavaScript to Magento 2 by Jesse Maxwell
• Magento 2 with Slick Carousel by Vanja Devcic
• Add Quantity Increment and Decrement Button in Magento 2 with KnockoutJS by Syed Muneeb Ul Hasan

Videos

• Magento 2 Multi Source (Stock) Inventory open demo by Magento
• How to Create WebAPI and How to Cover them with API Functional Tests by Magento
• How to create Custom Theme in Magento 2 by Max Pronko
• Beer and eCommerce: Magento 2.1.8 Release, Increased Community Involvement by TJ Gamble

Tools

• gordonknoppe/magento-sadserver – All error messages have been replaced with “¯_(ツ)_/¯” since you don’t bother to read them anyways.
• tddwizard/magento2-fixtures – Fixture library for Magento 2 integration tests.
• mpchadwick/Mpchadwick_MwscanUtils – A set of utilities to use in tandem with magento-malware-scanner.
• Vinai/module-customer-password-command – Set Customer Password with bin/magento.
• davidalger/capistrano-magento2 – A Capistrano extension for Magento 2 deployments.

Magento 2 GitHub Pull Requests – Max’s TOP favourites

The TOP Magento 2 Github Pull Requests list is a hand-picked list of contributions from Magento Community I believe you have to check:

• #10288 Google Sitemap refactoring – introduce item resolver by Piotr Kwiecinski. Pull Request with Major refactoring of the Sitemap feature, allowing for more extensibility by third-parties.
• #10508 Send different base currency in Google analytics by DominicWatts. Pull Request which allows order tracking with different currencies in Google Analytics.
• #10089 Add fulltext/keyword search field for product admin grid by Josef Behr. This Pull Request is a good example of how easy it is to implement a missing admin search feature with Magento 2.
• #10516 Update Cookie Manager library to make max cookie number configurable by bartoszherba. Pull Request and interesting discussion regarding maximum allowed cookie number. Is it always a bad code or sometimes not?
• #10356 Change URL Key behaviour to allow the same key to be used more than once. Controversial discussion regarding URL rewrite mechanism in Magento 2 and it’s difference from Magento 1.

Interesting

• Fabian Schmengler, Magento Developer, and Consultant @integer_net, is writing a book called Test Driven Magento. This book is going to give a practical introduction to test-driven development (TDD) with Magento 2 and walk through a complete module creation as an example. You may subscribe to Fabian’s newsletter to receive emails about preview material and updates.
• Vinai Kopp, Magento Expert, Developer & Trainer, is launching the new project called Mage2.tv. Mage2.tv is a library of screencasts on Magento 2 development. You can vote for topics which are going to be used for further Magento 2 Screencasts preparation.

This is all for the Magento Tech Digest #1, hope you found it interesting.

In case you would like to contribute to the next Magento Tech Digest please send me a message with your proposed link.