Itris Magento 2 starters Theme and Module

Usefull for starting Theme Development on Magento 2

Includes a basic Theme and Module structure, composer.json file for installing Magento 2 (2.1.7 CE), Latest versions of Snowdog Frontools, Snowdog Blank theme - SASS version, H&O Magento 2 Advanced Template Hints module and ofcourse a .gitignore file for a great kick start of your project.

You need to have already installed

• A local development environment with a web server with PHP7 (not 7.1), database server and dnsmasq so you can run a domain like .dev
• Composer dependency manager for PHP

How to Use

Setup Magento 2

• Clone this repo
• Add database mysql -h localhost -u user -p password and type create database magento2; check with show databases; if it excists
• Run composer install
• Type chmod +x bin/magento in the commandline to make Magento 2 a extendable
• Test the Magento 2 CLI by type bin/magento
• Then run bin/magento setup:install --admin-email="admin+magento2@topleveldomain.com" --admin-firstname="admin" --admin-lastname="admin" --admin-password="password123" --admin-user="admin" --backend-frontname="admin" --base-url="http://magento2.dev" --db-host="127.0.0.1" --db-name="magento2" --db-user="databaseuser" --db-password="databasepassword123" --use-rewrites="1" --use-secure="0" to install Magento 2
• Run bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy to deploy the themes and backend

Put Magento 2 in developers mode

• run bin/magento deploy:mode:set developer to set Magento 2 in developers mode
• Check if Magento 2 is in developers mode and run bin/magento deploy:mode:show always check de core_config_data table if Magento 2 is in developers mode by looking up dev/static/sign value must be 0. You can set developers mode manualy by running this query

INSERT INTO core_config_data (scope, scope_id, path, value) VALUES ('default', 0, 'dev/static/sign', '0');

• Turn off Magento 2 Page Cache with bin/magento cache:disable or just elements of the Cache with bin/magento cache:disable layout block_html for example

Check if your theme type is in Physical mode

INSERT INTO `theme` (`theme_id`, `parent_id`, `theme_path`, `theme_title`, `preview_image`, `is_featured`, `area`, `type`, `code`) VALUES (NULL, '4', NULL, 'Itris Iris', NULL, '0', 'frontend', '0', 'Itris/iris');

Sample Data

• Install Magento 2 sample data with bin/magento sampledata:deploy (you need you public key and private key for this, you can get them by making a free account on magentocommerce.com)
• When you installed the sample data run bin/magento setup:upgrade

Develop with SASS

• Setup frontools by going to package directory vendor/snowdog/frontools and run yarn or npm install and run gulp setup check the theme configuration in dev/tools/frontools/config
• Run gulp in dev/tools/frontools too see all frontools commands
• Run gulp styles --theme iris or gulp watch --theme iris when starting development

Nice to Have

Turn off admin notifications with n98-magerun2, run n98-magerun2 admin:notifications

Usefull Magento 2 CLI commands in development

• bin/magento setup:upgrade When installing a Magento 2 plugin/module via composer
• bin/magento setup:di:compile Generates DI configuration and all missing classes that can be auto-generated
• bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy --theme iris Deploys static view files

Must haves in Magento 2 Development

Alan Storm Pestle A collection of command line scripts for Magento 2 code generation, and a PHP module system for organizing command line scripts.

n98-magerun2 The swiss army knife for Magento developers, sysadmins and devops. The tool provides a huge set of well tested command line commands which save hours of work time. All commands are extendable by a module API.

When developing on OSX you can use Valet as a easy to use development environment. With Nginx and DnsMasq out of the box.

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