One week before the Magento Imagine 2018! How is your #RoadToImagine preparation going? I am planning to visit the Imagine conference this year and would love to meet and chat. Here is the new collection of the technical Magento resources. It includes Progressive Web Apps tutorials and videos, Magento 2 tutorials and announcements.

If you are a Magento beginner and want to start working with Magento 1 or 2 this is a great chance to go through the links and find your next interesting article which will help to gain more knowledge and inspire you to build your own custom functionality.

News and Updates

• From PHP 7.0 to PHP 7.2 in Magento 2.3 by Olga Kopylova

General

• Useful Elasticsearch Commands by Mr. Jute
• Elastisearch Installation on Ubuntu by Mr. Jute
• Magento 2 Module-based Architecture by Andrey Matveev
• The Need For Mobile Speed: AMP-Based Magento Templates by Lana Miro
• Magento 2 LESS vs. CSS Starter Guide by Margarita Nikolenko
• Magento 2 Certification: Module-based Architecture Dependencies, Limitations, Interactions by Vitaly Shabatko
• Magento 2 Checkout: Reduce abandoned carts and increase sales by Pronko Consulting
• Wallpapers to get ready for Imagine 2018 by Igor Polishchuk
• How to solve Specified URL key already exists error during Magento 2 import by Firebear Studio
• How to Fix 404 Error for Scripts and CSS in Magento 2 by Firebear Studio
• Protecting Your Magento Store From eCommerce Fraud by Gasper
• How To Hire A Freelance Magento Developer by Gasper
• #MagentoMonday Community Digest 2018.04.09 by Sherrie Rohde
• What authentication option is able to address Magento security concerns better? by Aitoc Team

Progressive Web Application (PWA)

No updates regarding Progressive Web Apps this week. Probably, everyone is busy with the Magento Imagine 2018 preparation.

PHP

• Magento 2: How to Call CMS Static Block in Phtml File by BlogTreat
• Controllers, Routers and Responses in Magento 2 by Gennadiy Haritonov
• How to display product name instead of product id in Magento admin grid by MageComp
• How to display “Free” for product with $0.00 price in Magento 2 by MageComp
• Magento 2 Deprecated Save & Load Methods In Abstract Model by Firebear Studio
• How To Add Fees To Order Totals In Magento 2 by Firebear Studio
• How to Override Core Block, Model & Controller in Magento 2 by Firebear Studio
• The correct use of the cache in Magento 2. #Codehacks by MARC RODRÍGUEZ
• How to Create Magento 2 Admin User by Syed Muneeb Ul Hasan

JavaScript

• Magento 2 CSS and JavaScript Files Are Not Loading by Firebear Studio

Performance

• 7 Ways to Make Magento 2 Theme Faster by Konstantin Gerasimov
• 10 Tips for Optimizing Magento Ecommerce Stores (and Improve Business) by Hasel Smith

Tools

• mcspronko/magento-2-view-model by Max Pronko

Videos

• PHP 7.2 support – weekly meeting, 12 Apr 2018 by Magento Community Engineering
• Bulk API Phase 2 Grooming by Eugene Tulika
• How to Network at Magento Imagine by Commerce Hero
• Magetalk meetup April 24, 2018 Las Vegas, USA by Commerce Hero

Outro

Send me your interesting technical Magento resources in order to review and include them into the next Magento Tech Digests.