Vyacheslav Vdovin

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In this article we will create own Magento 2 theme. We will build it, according to the following plan:

• Creation of the theme catalog and its declaration
• Creation of the composer package for theme (optional step). We will not do that in this article, but describe the process.
• Creation of the registration.php file
• Images configuration (catalog, product page, etc.)
• Internationalization and translation
• Creation of the catalog for static files
• Defining of the theme logotype

In this article we will describe the Magento 2 installation process in details. Here you will find our advices and troubleshooting recommendations, which will be useful during installation process and certainly will save your time.

The installation will be performed with sample data import, so as a result you will receive a complete Magento 2 demo with categories, products and all other demo data required for testing.

In this table we will compare system requirements of the Magento 1.x and Magneto 2.x branches. We will compare differences of the platforms requirements for the server environment, PHP configuration, supported cache engines and browsers versions:

In this article we will look "under the hood" of Magento 2.0 frontend engine. And describe the most interesting parts in details.

New Magento 2 frontend engine keeps up with the times, and uses HTML5, CSS3 technologies.

The Prototype library was replaced by jQuery. And yes, jQuery is out of the box now (at last!), along with Jquery UI. But anyway Prototype is still present in Magento 2.

Magento 2 have Magento UI library (which is based on LESS), it contains a solid set of mixins, also a large set of variables that allows you to make the development process more intuitive and flexible.