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The Layout System
It’s time to get serious! In the earlier chapters, we prepared our local dockerized environment and installed Adobe Commerce (AC). We launched some CLI commands, and you learned a lot about the framework itself so that you can start customizing the platform and creating bespoke frontends for your trusted customers.
In this chapter, we will explore the Magento 2 layout system in detail. I will show you the basic concepts behind it (in short, layout eXtensible Markup Language (XML)), including its structure and the role of the layout files. We will examine the various types of blocks and containers that make up the layout system, and how they can be used to build custom pages. However, we will dig into templates a little bit ...
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