Hi Magento Developers!

I am happy to share Magento Tech Digest #7.

News and Updates

• Public APIs in Magento 2.2 by Anton Kril
• Community Engineering Update – October 2017 by David Manners
• Varnish Cache Validation beginning 1/2/18 by etalbott

General

• Packagist Semver Checker by Alan Storm
• Introducing Magento Security Scan Tool: New Way to Enhance the Magento Store Security by AheadWorks
• A Story of an Individual PHP Composer Dependency Heck and how to Exorcise Said Heck by Alan Storm
• Marketplace Developer Diaries: Max Pronko by Magento Marketplace Team
• Marketplace Developer Diaries: BelVG by Magento Marketplace Team
• Marketplace Developer Diaries: Fooman by Magento Marketplace Team
• Magento Hosting Options by Isaiah Bollinger
• How to Use the Magento Design Fallback System by Sergey Samets
• Theming Related Directory Structure in Magento by David Narbutovich
• Improved Versioning for our Magento 2 Extensions by Kristof Ringleff
• Working faster with bin/magento by Kristof Ringleff
• A Look at CSS and Less in Magento 2 by Chris Nanninga
• Protect your store more with Magento Security Scan Tool by MageHit
• Creating and installing language pack in Magento 2 by MageHit

PHP

• How to Disable Add to Cart Button in Magento 2 by Syed Muneeb Ul Hasan
• How to Add Social Share Buttons in Magento 2 by Syed Muneeb Ul Hasan
• Detecting possible issues with serialized data after Magento 2.2 upgrade by Dmytro Cheshun
• Magento SUPEE-10415 security patch by Igor Furseev
• Module Initialization in Magento 2 by Gennadiy Haritonov
• Module Initialization in Magento 1 by Gennadiy Haritonov
• How to Implement Internationalization of Frontend Pages in Magento (CE+EE) by David Narbutovich
• How to Create SimpleXMLElement Object in Magento 2 by MageComp
• How to Install Magento SUPEE 10415 With or Without SSH by MageComp
• How to Modify Table Column Programmatically in Magento 2 by MageComp
• How Create Attribute Set Programmatically & Assign Attributes to It in Magento 2 by MageComp
• Creating a Shipping Method in Magento 2 by Richard Sisco
• Magento 2 – add sales_order column by MageMaster

JavaScript

• Magento 2 widgets – gallery widget explained by Igor Tikvic

Performance

• Improve Magento 2 performance with AWS CloudFront by Max Pronko
• PHP Meminfo and Memory Leaks by Alan Storm

Video

• How to Manually Install Storefront Theme in Magento 2 by Max Pronko. In this tutorial, Max reviews available options on how 3rd party custom Storefront theme can be installed on Magento 2. We will install purchased Storefront theme manually.
• MSI Open Demo. November 17, 2017 by Igor Minyaylo. In this video the following topics are discussed: Sales Channels Mapping improvements (@vnayda @Bartłomiej Szymański). Migrate Single Stock Data From CatalogInventory to MSI SourceItems (@Bartłomiej Szymański). Introduce initial Inventory Configuration Module (@Yaroslav Rogoza). Code Quality Improvement, Stock assignment improvement (@andrew).
• MSI Open Demo. November 24, 2017 by Igor Minyaylo. Integration MSI with existing CatalogInventory code. Checkout @Bartłomiej Szymański The general strategy of CatalogInventory and MSI integration @iminiailo Static test which checks for required strict typing usage @Dwayne Hanekamp (presented by @vnayda) Fix to Replace strategy for SourceItem import and cover that with Integration test (@larsroettig) Introduce a link between Default Website and default Stock (did not work, because Default Website created with plain SQL query ) @Sinisa (presented by @iminiailo) Product Import. Qty field supposed to be handled by MSI APIs and saved to Default Source Item @joshcarter (presented by @iminiailo) ** Multi-Dimensional Indexes (@vnayda)
• MSI Open Demo. December 1, 2017 by Igor Minyaylo. Added configuration option for choosing between strong consistency and Eventual one. Presented by @Sinisa Integration story. Deleting MSI source item when legacy CatalogInventory stock item has been deleted. Presented by @Sinisa Product Import functionality. File format extended to support MSI data. Presented by @joshcarter Inventory Configuration introduced. (used for Low Stock notification story). Presented by @Yaroslav Rogoza

Tools

• danslo/CleanCheckout by Daniel Sloof. A drop-in replacement for the Magento 2 checkout.

Interesting

• We invite developers to participate in Magento Contribution Day at Amasty! by Alina Bragina
• Magento 2 CleanCheckout Open Sourced by Alan Storm

Finally

If you see a TYPO or would like to share a link for the next Magento Tech Digest please send me an email or comment below. Thank you.