The Magento Tech Digest #31 is the biggest collection of the resources dedicated to the development.

If you are a Magento beginner and want to start working with Magento 1 or 2 this is a great chance to go through the links and find your next interesting article which will help to gain more knowledge and inspire you to build your own custom functionality.

Previous Magento Tech Digest #30 can be found here: Magento Tech Digest #30: Aug 27 – Sept 03, 2018.

General

• Overriding Layout Files in Magento 2 by Sergey Samets
• Understanding Containers, Blocks and Actions in Magento 2 Layout Structure by Sergey Samets
• eComBricks Multi-Vendor Marketplace Magento 2 Extension by Firebear Studio Team
• Magento 2 Dimensional Shipping Extensions Comparison (Amasty, Aitoc) by Firebear Studio Team
• Amasty Dimensional Shipping Weight for Magento 2 by Firebear Studio Team
• Community Engineering Newsletter, September 11 – 15, 2018 by lkrell
• Community Engineering Newsletter, September 3 – 7, 2018 by lkrell
• Fresh updates on Magento 2.3 release by Darya Yermashkevich
• Improved Magento 2 Custom Form to gather info with elegance by Darya Yermashkevich
• One, two, three to prevent Magento 2 compatibility issues by Andrei Vorobjev
• How to integrate Cloudflare to speed up Magento 2? by Magehit Team
• New Extension Release: Loyalty Program for Magento 2 by Aitoc Team
• How To Configure SMTP In Magento 2? [5 minutes] by April Lee
• Starting an Online Store – Look No Further Than Magento! by Magenticiants
• Magento Commerce Vs Commerce Cloud Vs Open Source by Isaiah Bollinger
• Magento 1 end of support FAQ: You need to know by Marcel Ober
• Magento Essential Grid 2.2.5 Released by Eugenewd
• Magento 1 sunset day is officially announced. Time to consider migration by Alexander Levashov
• Magento 1 Support Update by Brent W Peterson

PHP

• Module Layout Handles in Magento 2 by Denis Natalevich
• Magento 2 Custom System Configuration by Gennadiy Haritonov
• How to apply security Patches in Magento 2 by Rockstar Magicians
• How to auto approve registered customer product review in Magento 2 by Rockstar Magicians
• How to display subcategories information on category page in Magento 2 by Rockstar Magicians
• How to display percentage discount in Magento 2 product details page by Rockstar Magicians
• Cache context and page variations in Magento 2 by Dmytro Cheshun
• Magento 1 official PHP 7.2 patches by Tomas Novoselic
• Development environment for Magento 2 using Docker by Tomas Novoselic
• Customer Grid Index Doesn’t Update on Schedule by Max Chadwick
• Reindexing Customer Grid Runs out of Memory in Magento 2 by Max Chadwick
• Replication Lag Race Conditions in Magento by Max Chadwick
• How to Upgrade Magento 2 Website to Latest Version by Icecubedigital Team

Security

• Be aware of magentocore.net malware by Magemaster

MySQL

• When and why we need to use start/end setup methods? by Dmytro Cheshun
• Limiting Access To Specific Tables in MySQL – Cheetsheat by Max Chadwick

Import & Export

• How to Export data into CSV file Programmatically in Magento 2 by Rockstar Magicians
• How to import data from SAP ASE (Sybase) database to Magento 2 by Firebear Studio Team
• How to import data from external HBase database to Magento 2 by Firebear Studio Team

PWA

• Magento PWA Studio: General Overview by Adrian Bece
• Reaction v2 – the second Magento PWA conference in Eindhoven by Sonja Riesterer
• Is a PWA the right choice for my eCommerce? by Agata Mlodawska
• Magento PWA Sprint 23 Demo by Magento Community Engineering
• Magento PWA Demo, 10 September 2018 (Sprint 24) by Magento Community Engineering

Videos

• Adobe/Magento Bug Bounty Program Announcement by Kalen Jordan mister Commerce Hero
• How to pass Magento 2 Professional Developer Exam by Max Pronko
• Ask Me Anything Episode 11: Salesforce, Performance in Magento 2, Adobe by Max Pronko
• Should you use Magento 2 module generation tool? by Max Pronko
• What is the purpose of the JS Component in Magento 2 by Max Pronko
• Magento MSI Open Demo. September 14, 2018 by Igor Miniailo
• Live: Let’s discuss why Merchants are not more involved in the Magento community by eCommerce-Aholic
• The State of the Magento Community and the Bug Bounty Program by eCommerce-Aholic
• Magento2 Advanced Catalog Tools by Ibnab

Outro

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