Component development

Magento 2 is flexible and as a result has varied functionality, so developing a component in Magento takes into account a number of different of the following topics. Please read the information on compatibility — Service Contracts, Design Patterns, and the information on Dependency Injection, Routing, and Working With Public Interfaces and APIs closely; they are essential to creating a good Magento 2 component.

• Compatibility (backward and forward)
  • Service contracts
  • Design patterns
• Working with public interfaces and APIs
• Object manager and dependency injection
• Code generation
• EAV attributes
• Plug-ins (aka interceptors)
• Routing
• Indexing
• Configure a service as a web API
• ViewModels