Chapter 3. Programming Concepts and Conventions

With years of experience, the Magento platform grew up to implement a lot of industry concepts, standards, and conventions. Throughout this chapter, we will look into several of these independent sections that stand out in day-to-day interactions with Magento development.

We will go through the following sections in this chapter:

• Composer
• Service contracts
• Code generation
• The var directory
• Coding standards