Even in Drupal 7, Views had a pretty good integration with the entity system. But seeing as there was no robust entity API to speak of, this integration was not so organic. It required more contributed modules and some custom code to make an entity type work with Views.
In Drupal 8, however, the two are very closely linked and it's a breeze exposing new content entities to Views. If you've followed along with Chapter 7 ,Your Own Custom Entity and Plugin Types, and have the Product entity type set up, you'll notice that if you try to create a View, you will have no option to make it based on products. That is because in the entity type definition, we did not specify it should be exposed to Views. That's all there is to it, ...
