Tag: Magento

1. Private Composer Repositories in Magento 2: Distributing Custom Modules Cleanly

   Jan 26, 2025

   Any agency maintaining custom Magento 2 modules across several client projects cannot avoid a private Composer repository. Instead of distributing modules manually via FTP or a zip file, a private Composer repository makes them installable through composer require, versioned through git tags and with full dependency resolution against magento/framework. This article shows how to build a solid distribution infrastructure, from the repositories configuration through a self hosted Satis instance to a secured CI pipeline.

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2. ViewModel Pattern in Magento 2: Clean phtml Templates Without Bloated Blocks | Mironsoft

   Jan 19, 2025

   Implement ArgumentInterface, move logic out of Block classes, inject it via Layout XML, unit test it, and use it to full effect in the Hyva Theme, explained in full.

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3. Configurable Products in Magento 2: Variation Generation and Performance

   Jan 18, 2025

   Configurable products are the standard tool in Magento 2 for representing size, color or material as independent, stock-managed variations. Anyone who understands the data model built from catalog_product_super_attribute and catalog_product_super_link, generates variations programmatically instead of manually in the admin grid, and designs indexers and Full Page Cache for large combination counts avoids the typical performance traps that slow down configurable catalogs with 10,000 or more SKUs.

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4. Builder Pattern in Magento 2 | Building Complex Objects Step by Step

   Jan 11, 2025

   The builder pattern creates complex objects step by step. In Magento 2 it matters most for SearchCriteria, filters, sort orders and stable configuration objects for services.

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5. Unit Tests in Magento 2 | Fast and Effective Without Bootstrap

   Jan 7, 2025

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6. Magento 2 Store View Configuration: Best Practices for Scopes

   Jan 6, 2025

   A misconfigured Magento 2 store view configuration often goes unnoticed for weeks, until a customer on the wrong domain sees the wrong price displayed. The scope hierarchy of default, website and store view decides which value actually wins, and anyone who has not internalized this order produces configuration errors that only show up in production.

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7. Static Tests in Magento 2: Magento Coding Standard, Dependency and Legacy Checks

   Jan 6, 2025

   Static tests in Magento 2 catch exactly the class of problems that neither PHPStan nor PHPUnit see: violations of the Magento Coding Standard, undeclared dependencies between modules, and legacy patterns quietly reintroduced into the codebase. Whoever takes the suite under dev/tests/static seriously prevents exactly the kind of structural failure that only becomes visible at the next major upgrade or when module load order changes.

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8. MSI in Magento 2 | Getting Custom Source and Reservations Right

   Jan 2, 2025

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9. Varnish FPC vs. Built-in Cache in Magento 2: Decision Criteria for Practice

   Jan 1, 2025

   Magento 2 already ships with a working caching solution in the form of its built-in full page cache, yet many projects put Varnish in front of the shop anyway without checking whether the actual requirements call for it. This article compares both approaches based on traffic volume, hosting setup and team skills, and uses VCL examples, purge strategies and monitoring commands to show when the extra operational effort of Varnish really pays off.

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