Can’t Add a new UI Component Type · Issue #5647 · magento/magento2 An interesting side effect of the new XML schemas – the definition.xml files for UI components have their top nodes locked down, which means developers can’t add their own UI component types.
astormFormatting Dates in Magento Javascript If you’re doing any work in Magento’s RequireJS based javascript modules and see a dateFormat string defaults: { dateFormat: 'MMM d, YYYY h:mm:ss A' }, Chances are its a Moment.js date format string. You can pull in the main moment function via a RequireJS shim define(['moment'], [...]
astormToday we're going to talk about a new feature in Magento 2 -- UI Components. This may end up being a stand alone article, or it may be the start of a longer in depth series. I'm still figuring out the best way to
astormDemystifying Plugins (MageTitans Italy 2016) Concise explanation of the code involved in using a Magento 2 Plugin to change core system behavior, with the talk over here if you’re the sort who likes context.
astormI’ve been digging through Magento’s UI Components this week and hit a stumbling block. The main KnockoutJS template that kicks off rendering (vendor/magento//module-ui/view/base/web/templates/collection.html) looks like this <each args="data: elems, as: 'element'"><render [...]
astormI just updated pestle with a new magento2:generate:ui:grid command. Magento 2.1+ only, not likely to be ported backwards to the 2.0.x branch. A longer article over on alanstorm.com is forthcoming, but here’s the quickie version. Here’s the arguments to use to create a UI Component Listing. $ pestle.phar [...]
astormIf you’re following along with Magento 2 development, you’ve probably heard the drum beat that the Model/Resource Model/Collections are old and tired, and the Repository classes are new and wired. While the move towards repositories is is a Good Thing™, a Magento 2 developers still needs to know the old CRUD system, and that [...]
astormHow Interceptors are Generated TLDR; The object manager appends Interceptor to the class name you asked for if there’s a plugin. Then a second PHP Autoloader will look for Interceptor at the end of a classes name, and if it can’t find a definition via normal means, the autoloader generates the class.
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