Magento 2 Developer's Guide

Building a frontend interface

Now that we have defined the necessary minimum for data persistence functionality, we can move forward to building a frontend interface. The module requirement says that customers should be able to submit a ticket through their My Account section. We will therefore add a link called Helpdesk Tickets under the customer's My Account section.

The following are needed for a fully functional frontend:

• A route that will map to our controller
• A controller that will catch requests from a mapped route
• A controller action that will load the layout
• Layout XMLs that will update the view making it look as if we are on the My Account section while providing content of our own
• A block class to power our template file
• A template file that ...