Magento 2 Development from scratch

Magento 2 is now out for a couple of months and since recently I too have begun developing with this new version of the e-commerce platform. On my blog I will set out a series of posts that will cover a lot of topics for those diving into the world of Magento 2 development. This can be the development of modules, themes, templates, etc.
In this article I’ll set out a roadmap of what I am going to be writing about.

Topics

The following topics will be covered in this serie:

• Creating a module in Magento 2.
• Adding system configuration.
• Creating helpers.
• Creating blocks.
• Creating widgets.
• Events and observers.
• Creating models and model collections.
• Source models.
• Dependency Injection (Constructor Injection).
• Plugins.
• Create database setup scripts.
• Adding menu items to the admin.
• Create an admin grid for your own entities.
• Create admin forms for editing your own entities.
• Creating a new theme.
• Modifying existing layout items.
• Adding new templates to your theme.
• Understanding Magento 2 theme mechanics.
• Using JavaScript in Magento 2 themes.
• Utilising Magento 2’s CLI.
• Deploying Magento 2 to a production- or staging server.
• … more to follow …

Credits

Of course there are a ton of resources about Magento 2 online. Some of those I also used while learning Magento 2 myself. To give credits to the right people, here are the sources I used:

• Magento 2 developer documentation
• Ash Smith : Magento 2 module from scratch
• Advanced Checkout : How to create an admin grid in Magento 2
• Venus Theme : How to create a Magento 2 widget?
• Magento 2’s own CLI example