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Magento2What’s New in
Theming
Waruna Perera Senior Front End Software Engineer
Agenda
New folder structure Less instead of Sass Layouts UI Components / JS Creating a New Theme
Magento1 theme folders
New Folder Structure
No skin folder New Pub Folder All static files are published in Pub folder Front End themes are located under app/design/frontend/<Vendor>/ Magento default themes can be found under vendor/magento/theme-frontend-<theme_code>
Magento2 theme folders
Pub/static
Theme Inheritance
Static view files - css/js/fonts/images Dynamic view files – less/templates/layouts
Theme Files
Guarantees that if a view file is not found in the current theme, the system searches in the ancestor themes, module view files or library.
Parent theme is defined in the child theme theme.xml file Static files can be overridden by adding a file with the same name on
relevant location .less (even though they are not static files) files are also overridden
by a file with same name
Magento/test/theme.xml
Magento/test/etc/view.xml
Extending Layouts Unlike templates or images, layout can not be overridden, but only
extended Layouts are called in order of:
I. Current them layoutsII. Ancestor theme layoutsIII. Module layout for frontend areaIV. Module layout for base area
Include css files /Magento_Theme/layout/default_head_blocks.xml If the system does not find the included CSS files, it searches for the
same file names with a .less extension.
CSS files locations Css files are located at :
/module_name/web/css/ /web/css/
/Magento_Theme/layout/default_head_blocks.xml
Css/js with module files
Css pre-processor Sass on magento1.9. Less on magento 2 Less files are stored in web/css/source folder
Why Less? Not Sass? Sass is widely used than less Sass needs ruby to compilation Less can be compiled with less resources- grunt, less.js
Less compile methods1. Server-side LESS compilation.
default compilation mode compilation is performed on the server, using the LESS PHP library
2. Client-side LESS compilation. compilation is performed on the browser using less.js library Used on development mode
Less compile methodsStores > Configuration > ADVANCED > Developer.
Less compile with grunt
In server-side compilation mode, you can use the Grunt JavaScript task runner.
Need node.js installed Install Grunt CLI Install Grunt in your Magento directory Install (or refresh) the node.js project dependency for your Magento
instance Add your theme to Grunt configuration -
dev/tools/grunt/configs/themes.js
Magento UI library Flexible LESS-based frontend library designed to assist Magento theme
developers. It employs a set of mixins for base elements to ease frontend theme
development and customization. Located at lib/web/css
Action-toolbar, breadcrumbs, buttons, drop-downs, forms, icons, layout, loaders, messages, pagination, popups
Inbuilt components
Magento UI library
Less Mixins You can use a mixin with default variables values, or you can redefine
them when calling a mixin. Variables starting with _@ are private variables within a mixin.
Require js Including javascript on header can slow down page loading speed Magento2 uses Require js library to overcome this problem RequireJS improves the perceived page load time because it allows
JavaScript to load in the background It enables asynchronous javaScript loading. RequireJS improves the speed and quality of your code by breaking
large application into smaller manageable code RequireJS loads plain JavaScript files as well as more defined modules RequireJS only loads the JS script that the page needs.
• require.js - app\code\Magento\Theme\view\frontend\layout\default_head_blocks.xml• requirejs-config.js - app/code/{Namespace}/{Module}/view/{area}/requirejs-config.js
Env.php
Creating a new theme
Thank you!!