Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide

Setting up the playground

To get a better understanding of the frontend area, we are going to build a very lightweight Magelicious_Jsco module, to serve as a playground for our JS component exploration.

To this point, we should already be pretty familiar with the flow of creating a new module. Assuming we have defined our basic registration.php, composer.json, and etc/module.xml files, we can start dealing with the specifics of our Magelicious_Jsco module.

Let's start by defining <MODULE_DIR>/etc/frontend/routes.xml, as follows:

<config>    <router id="standard">        <route id="jsco" frontName="jsco">            <module name="Magelicious_Jsco"/>        </route>    </router></config>

We then create <MODULE_DIR>/Controller/Playground.php, as follows:

namespace Magelicious\Jsco\Controller; ...