How to Master Magento 2 – For beginners to Advance Guide

February 13, 2023

Magento 2 - Guide to be a Top Magento Developer

If you are looking for a spoon feeding course you may need to stop reading from here. This guide will simulate the real world company environment that you have to work in.
In a company, you will not be spoon feeded but you will be guided to overcome difficult situations. When you are a software developer, your best friend will be “Google”. 99% questions you encounter have been previously experienced by someone in the industry and those good developers posted the issues and answers on the internet (You should do the same once you become a level to figure things out on your own). You just need to improve your skills to break down your problem to smaller portions and turn into lexicals and past in the search box.
So if that is the case why do you need training. You need the training for two parts.

To understand the problem and break it to pieces.
Alter the solution you found to match with your problem.

Other than that, you have to learn how to resolve a solution when no help is available (very rarely in the Software Community).

As we mentioned above, we have guidance or most of the time ‘terms to search’. What you need to do is follow the tasks step by step. Only follow the date guid if you are allocating your full time. Do not worry about the duration. Sometimes you will get stuck for days to find a solution for a small issue or a bug created because of a typo. In my opinion more you encounter with those situation, you will get more knowledge. What is important is to grab the knowledge as much as can during your training. As spartans says “SWEAT MORE IN TRAINING — BLEED LESS IN BATTLE”

We are always there to help you. But you must make sure at least you try 2 days to resolve your issue and if you have no luck, you can comment your questions below. We will surely reply to it but may take two 3 days to come back. By that time if you have found the answer (Probably you would), you can post your answer here before we do.

Day 1:

Install Magento, and experience the admin area

Install Ubuntu
Install LEMP: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-nginx-mysql-php-lemp-stack-ubuntu-18-04
Create a virtual host neosolax.test
Install Magento community with composer: https://www.simicart.com/blog/magento-2-composer/
Enable Sample data
Install PhpStorm
Setup the project in PhpStorm.
Install xDebug
Subtasks

From the Magento frontend

1. Add product to the cart
2. Add product to the wishlist
3. Complete an order
4. Create a user
5. Logout with the user
6. Log in with the user
7. Add products to wishlist
8. Compare products
9. Add products to cart
10. Complete the orders
11. Add new address to the user from the customer account section
12. View the orders
13. ReOrder the previous one.

From the magento admin:

1. Create a category
2. Create a simple product
3. Create a Configurable Product
4. Create Group Product
5. Create Bundle Product
6. Create Virtual Product
7. Create Downloadable product
8. Create Website
9. Create Stroe
10. Create Store View
11. Create CMS page
12. Create CMS Block
13. Include CMS Block in to CMS Page
14. Change the currency to LKR
15. Change the timezone to Sri Lanka
16. Create product attribute
17. Create product attribute group
18. Create front-end customer
19. Create customer group
20. Create tax group
21. Create a backend order
22. Change the order status to invoice
23. Change the order status to ship
24. Do a Credit Memo
25. Create an order from the frontend and cancel it.
26. Create a paypal sandbox account.
27. Create a promotion for all the product to give 50% discount at cart
28. Add a new url to the product that you created before.
29. Export all the products

Day 2:

Magento Extension Development

To prove you need to learn:

Day 3

Magento Theme

Day 4/5:

Start Developing the first Magento Model with the knowledge you absorbed

Go through the following tasks and provide detailed estimation in a google sheet before starting the exercise.

Create a sample module NeoSolax_Staff.
Create a database table called employees with below fields.
1. employee_id
2. name
3. email
4. mobile_number
5. marital_status
6. created_at
7. updated_at
Create a route called {base_url}/neosolax/employee/details
1. On this route, the user should be presented with a grid that has all the details of the users. (Employee ID, Name, Email, Mobile Number, Marital Status).
2. Should have another column as “Action” at the end of the column set
3. It should have two links as ‘Edit’, ‘Delete’. The respective function should trigger upon clicking on them
4. Also should have a “New” button. The respective function should trigger upon clicking on them
Upon clicking “New” button, it should redirect to {base_url}/neosolax/employee/new. In here, the user should be able to
1. User should be able to enter the details through a form.
2. User should be able to save the details.
Upon clicking “Edit” button, it should redirect to {base_url}/neosolax/employee/edit. In here,
1. User should be presented with existing data.
2. User should be able to update the details through a form.
3. User should be able to Save the details.
Upon clicking “Delete” button, it should popup a message for delete confirmation and if the user accepted need to proceed with the delete.
1. Once delete is the success it should come to the grid view. ({base_url}/neosolax/employee/details)

Note:

Any action should be presented with respective error, success, warning messages.

Concern about the styling as well.

Should add the proper validation.

Day 6:

Magento 2 - Handling dynamic frontend content

https://amasty.com/blog/tips-and-examples-of-using-knockout-in-magento-2/

Day 7:

Magento 2 - Database

https://www.thecoachsmb.com/how-to-perform-crud-operations-in-the-module-magento2/

Day 8:

Magento 2 - Apply your frontend knowledge

Redo the Day 5 task using KO Js.

Day 9 to 100:

Learn from Magento Guru

https://alanstorm.com/category/magento-2/
1. Magento 2 for PHP MVC Developers (Tutorials)
2. Magento 2: Advanced Javascript
3. Magento 2 and Composer

4. The Magento 2 Object System

5. Magento 2 UI Components

6. Magento 2: uiElement Internals

Once you are done with above, it is recommended to finish below.

https://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.3/frontend-dev-guide/bk-frontend-dev-guide.html

If you have followed this guide till the end, I would guarantee you that you will become a Magento superstar. Not only that, you would learn any technology within one to two weeks.

One last thing to note, follow the best practices as much as possible and try to write efficient and well documented code always.

With you all the very best for your software engineering career!