Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide

Creating the minimal module

Let's create the most minimal module there is in Magento. Our module will be called Core and it will belong to the Magelicious vendor. The formula for determining the directory of custom modules is app/code/<VendorName>/<ModuleName>, or in our case <MAGELICIOUS_DIR>/Core.

We start off by creating the <MAGELICIOUS_DIR>/Core/registration.php file with the following content:

\Magento\Framework\Component\ComponentRegistrar::register(    \Magento\Framework\Component\ComponentRegistrar::MODULE,    'Magelicious_Core',    __DIR__);

The registration.php file is essentially the entry point of our module. The register method of the Magento\Framework\Component\ComponentRegistrar class provides the ability to statically register components, ...