The implementation of automated tests has always been an interesting topic for many store owners and managers. We receive many questions every day like: should we invest money for tests in addition to development? How will it help an online business? Which tests are better and why? Therefore, we aim to shed some light on the most popular and useful types of tests and highlight the key reasons for their importance.
If you developed some Magento 2 module and you want to publish the module on the Magento Marketplace, you need to prepare a package with the module first.
In the post, we do not describe how to publish the module on the Magento Marketplace only how to prepare the ultimate package version and validate it.
Magento events and observers are a good old way of extending Magento. This approach originated from Magento 1 and is well-known beyond the Magento community and platform. It follows an observer design pattern and has different implementation and variations in different frameworks. This article covers how the Event Framework was implemented in Magento and how it is recommended to be used by the Magento Development Team..
Have you ever struggled with how to programmatically add a custom layout handle to a product page and what’s the best way to do it? Use the power of Magento 2 plugins (also called interceptors) added into the right place and you’re done!
Magento 2.3 GA release has finally landed.It is one of the most awaited releases Magento has ever seen, and it’s a thrilling moment for us at Atwix. Not only can our clients now benefit from all the new features that are available in 2.3, but we can also see live features that our team developed, working closely with other community contributors as well as the Magento Community Engineering team.
In order to add a custom layout handle to a category page, a (basic) Magento 2 module with these additional files and content is needed:
1. The events.xml file to “subscribe” to the event and say which observer should be fired ↵
2. An observer that adds a new layout handle to the page ↵
3. A layout file that adds needed changes to the page ↵
JavaScript bundling is an optimization technique you can use to reduce the number of server requests for JavaScript files. It is achieved by merging multiple JavaScript files together into one file to reduce the number of page requests. By default, Magento 2 allows excluding the particular JavaScript files from bundling by specifying the corresponding file in exclude node of the etc/view.xml file for a theme. However, sometimes it’s not enough.
Recently more and more people online bring up the topic of soft skills, its importance at the workplace and influence on the overall hierarchy and mood within the company.
But today I would like to cover its impact on the general productivity and draw a line between soft and so-called “hard skills” and also I would like to dispel a myth of importance soft skills only for managers.
Magento offers a marketing feature called Cart Price Rules, which allows for the application of discounts to items in the shopping cart based on a set of conditions. The discount can be applied automatically as soon as the conditions are met, or when the customer enters a valid coupon code. Coupon codes can be generated for each cart price rule via the admin panel in Marketing -> Cart Price Rulessection. However, sometimes we need to automate this process. Let’s find out how to create a cart price rule and generate coupon codes programmatically in Magento 2.
Most likely, at least once you faced the issue when customer session does not work except an account page etc. And usually, it’s not obvious why. Is it a bug? No, actually that is the case when it’s not a bug, it’s kind of feature.
