Features & Functionality - 3.10 Extensions and Customizations

Question 1

What is Magento Marketplace?

Answer 1

• Magento’s store to purchase modules.
• Module developers upload modules and profit share with Magento.
• Magento runs extensive QA on the modules to ensure they fit the requirements.
• Merchants or developers purchase modules from this and install.

Question 2

How to install a module?

Answer 2

• Installation is fairly straightforward.
• If using composer, add the module into composer:
• composer requires vendor/module
• Then:
• bin/magento module:enable vendor_module
• bin/magento setup:upgrade
• bin/magento setup:di:compile
• QA the website to ensure that everything works as expected.
• Deploy to product and retest to ensure that everything still works as expected.

Question 3

Differences between Magento 1 Marketplace and Magento 2 Marketplace.

Answer 3

• Magento Connect had little in the way of QA for the modules uploaded.
• Magento Connect did not share profits at all.
• Magento Marketplace uses composer to enable access to modules.
• Magento Marketplace filters modules to ensure that there is only one approved module per category.

Question 4

Where can a merchant find Magento 2 extensions?

Answer 4

• Google

* Recommended: Magento Marketplace

Question 5

What are the two ways of installing an extension in Magento 2?

Answer 5

• Composer (if available)

* Manually

Question 6

How can a Magento 2 Admin user disable an extension using Admin functionality?

Answer 6

• This question is misleading. It is not possible to disable an extension in Admin.
• You can disable a module’s output: Stores > Configuration > Advanced > Disable Modules Output.
• This just prevents a module from showing any HTML. The module still can run in the background.

Question 7

When is a customization required?

Answer 7

• When vanilla Magento doesn’t have needed functionality.

* When a quality module that meets the needs is not available. Then you write your own customization.