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Magento 2 - Build World-Class online stores
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Magento 2 - Build World-Class online stores

by Fernando J. Miguel, Ray Bogman, Vladimir Kerkhoff, Bret Williams, Jonathan Bownds
March 2017
Intermediate to advanced
699 pages
14h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
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Magento theme inheritance

The frontend of Magento allows designers to create new themes based on the basic blank theme, reusing the main code without changing its structure. The fallback system is a theme's inheritance mechanism and allows developers to create only the files that are necessary for customization.

The Luma theme, for example, uses the fallback system by inheriting the blank theme basic structure. The Luma theme parent is declared in its theme.xml file as follows:

<theme xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:Config/etc/theme.xsd">
    <title>Magento Luma</title>
    <parent>Magento/blank</parent>
    <media>
        <preview_image>media/preview.jpg</preview_image>
    </media>
</theme>
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ISBN: 9781788298025