Magento 2 Cookbook

Chapter 7. Creating Magento 2 Extensions – the Basics

In this chapter, we will cover the basics on how to create your own Magento 2 extensions with the following recipes:

• Initializing extension basics
• Working with database models
• Creating tables using setup scripts
• Creating a web route and controller to display data
• Creating system configuration fields
• Creating a backend data grid
• Creating a backend form to add/edit data

Introduction

Now that we have installed and configured Magento 2, we will see the basics on how to create a new Magento 2 extension. If you are familiar with creating an extension for Magento 1.x, you will notice that there are some concepts that look a lot like how it is done in Magento 1. However, as the code is a completely new framework, ...