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Understanding the tree structure and importing LESS files into Breeze for Magento 2
The Breeze theme for Magento 2 stands out for its performance, clean structure, and flexible customization.Unlike the Luma theme (and its Magento UI Library), Breeze offers a more modern and straightforward approach to managing CSS/LESS styles. Organizing LESS...
Why Breeze is the Best Magento 2 Theme (and a Real Alternative to Hyvä)
To build modern, fast, and high-performing Adobe Commerce (Magento 2) stores, the choice of front-end theme is crucial. For years, developers relied on the default themes: Luma and Blank. Then came premium alternatives like Hyvä. But recently, a new solution has been...
Varnish & Magento 2: Supercharging Full Page Cache Like a Pro
What is Varnish? Varnish is a high-performance HTTP reverse proxy designed to cache and serve web content extremely fast.It sits between the client (browser) and your backend server (like nginx or Apache), and serves cached responses without having to hit PHP or MySQL...
Plugin or Observer in Magento 2: Stop Mixing Them Up!
A plugin, or "interceptor" in Magento 2, is an essential customization component that allows developers to extend and modify the behavior of a class's public methods without directly editing its source code. In other words, a plugin acts as an intermediary,...
Magento 2 & Redis: Boosting Cache and Managing Sessions the Right Way
Redis: a fast, in-memory ally Redis is a lightweight key-value store running in memory, widely used for caching, sessions, queues, and real-time data handling. Magento 2 doesn’t require Redis, but it definitely benefits from it — especially when you're working with...
Warden, or How to Easily Set Up a Complete Local Magento Environment
Magento is great (yes, really—and you probably think so too, otherwise you wouldn’t be here!). But installing Magento locally for the first time can quickly become long and complicated. Between Nginx, Varnish, Redis, MariaDB, etc., that’s a lot of services to set up!...
Welcome to MageExpert – The Magento & E-commerce Blog by OpenITech
MageExpert is a blog dedicated to Magento 2, web development, and open-source e-commerce. Launched by the team at OpenITech, this site aims to share technical resources, practical tutorials, strategic guides, as well as insights and trends from the e-commerce world....