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2. Technology Stack

Viktor Khliupko

(1)Duesseldorf, Germany

In this chapter, we provide a complete overview of the Magento 21 technology stack. The new version of the popular e-commerce platform has been essentially revamped, so you will discover a lot of new features and requirements in comparison with 1.X. Below, we describe all major elements of the technology stack as well as provide some useful links.

Magento 2 Technology Stack:

  • PHP

  • Zend Framework

  • PSR-0, PSR-1, PSR-2, PSR-3, and PSR-4

  • Composer

  • HTML5

  • CSS3 (SASS preprocessor)

  • JQuery

  • RequireJS

  • Symfony

  • Apache

  • Nginx

  • MySQL

  • Gulp

  • Twig

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PHP

Magento 2 requires PHP 5.5 and 5.6 by default. It will also work with PHP 7. The ...

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