Blog posts about Magento

Debug Magento 2 PHP with Tinkerwell

There are many ways to debug Magento. One option is to use Tinkerwell, a fully-functional REPL to help debug your PHP code.

Pricing Comparison of Magento Open Source vs Adobe Commerce

When comparing Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce, it's important to consider pricing. But you should also weigh the pros & cons and features of each platform before making a decision.

Static Analysis in Magento with PHPStan

Learn about PHPStan and a related Magento plugin, which provide the ability to help follow Magento best practices by analyzing code during development.

Automated testing in Magento 2 with Behat

There are many ways to conduct automated unit testing in Magento, and one of those ways is with Behavior-Driven Development using Behat.

Create custom Magento checkout layout processors to modify jsLayout

Still using plugins to modify properties of jsLayout? Stop right now, and learn a more elegant way to customize the Magento checkout with your own custom layout processor.

All about the Magento 2 configuration settings fallback process

Everyone knows about creating & assigning configuration settings in Magento 2. But do you know about the fallback process, and how values can be overridden per environment?

Understand local & external JavaScript state management in Magento

Managing application state is always difficult, and knowing when to use local or external state can help guide a proper architectural decision for your Magento store.

Programmatically add a column to the Magento 2 sales order database table

Find out how to add a custom field to the sales_order database in Magento as an order attribute using extension attributes.

Easily debug Magento in Docker with Spatie's Ray

Sick of using \Psr\Log\LoggerInterface, var_dump, or Xdebug to debug data in Magento? There is now an easier way, thanks to Spatie's Ray.