Magento 2

Comprehensive articles about Magento 2 development, covering modules, customization, performance, and best practices.

Automatic updates for Magento
Coding tips, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Integration, Cypress, Deployer, End-2-End Testing, GitHub Actions, Magento 2, Magento 2 testing, Testing, Playwright

Say goodbye to manual updates make: Magento update automatically

Tired of managing Magento updates manually? Learn how to automate updates and streamline your Magento store's maintenance with our step-by-step guide. Say goodbye to the headaches of manual updates and keep your store secure and up-to-date effortlessly.
October 31st, 2024
Using Webgrind with Warden
Warden, Magento 2, Magento 2 local environment, Webgrind

Using Webgrind with Warden

Need to profile a project and don't have access to Blackfire? You can use Xdebug to achieve a similar result.
March 4th, 2024
Installing Hyvä through the CLI
Magento 2, Magento 2 local environment, Hyvä

Installing Hyvä through the CLI

Need to install Hyvä in a fast and easy way through the CLI? In this article I will explain to you how I achieve that.
November 1st, 2023
Deploying Magento using Deployer and Github Actions
Magento 2, Continuous Deployment, GitHub Actions, Deployer, Hyvä

Deploying Magento using Deployer and GitHub Actions

This guide walks you through Magento 2 deployment, covering Deployer Plus, Hyvä support, preparing Magento, and leveraging GitHub Actions for an efficient process.
April 25th, 2023
Using a debug.php with Magento
Magento 2, Magento 2 testing, Magento 2 local environment

Using a debug.php with Magento

Sometimes you have some code you want to test, but you don't want to go the full module/controller route, but the code is too complex for magerun dev:console. This article is for you.
January 24th, 2023
Testing email sending Magento 2
Magento 2, Testing, Integration test

Testing the email sending in Magento 2

Sending emails in Magento is a huge PITA. But testing if an email actually is sent, and checking the contents, is actually quite simple.
October 10th, 2022
Invoking javascript in the Magento frontend
Magento 2

Invoking javascript in the Magento frontend

There are multiple ways in Magento 2 how you can use Javascript in the frontend. In this post I'll go over the options.
January 27th, 2021
WTF is a proxy in Magento?
Magento 2, Magento Proxy, Coding tips, di.xml

WTF is a proxy in Magento?

Proxies in Magento allow you to wait with the rendering of the object until it is actually needed, but what does that even mean?
September 28th, 2020
Running Magento 2.4.0 with Valet Plus
Valet Plus+, Magento 2

Running Magento 2.4.0 on Valet+

Valet+ has support for ElasticSearch 6.8, but Magento 2.4.0 requires you to install a newer version, 7.6 or higher. How do you handle that with Valet+
September 10th, 2020
Save environment specific settings env.php
Magento 2, Magento 2 local environment

Save environment specific settings in your env.php file

This scenario has happened to me too many times: I downloaded a backup of a site (stripped from customer data of course), import the database in my local environment and open the site. At this moment you will get redirected to the site where the data originates from and you figure you need to change some URLs.
August 26th, 2020
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