Magento 2 Development Essentials

Applying the theme

As you learned in the previous chapter, it's time to activate the new theme. Activate the CompStore Electronics theme in the Admin area (http://localhost/packt/admin_packt) to see the following result:

Sometimes, when you update in the Magento structure or activate a new theme, you need to deploy the theme and module changes. If you want to deploy your changes, follow these steps:

1. Open the terminal or command prompt.
2. Delete the packt/pub/static/frontend/<Vendor>/<theme>/<locale> directory.
3. Delete the var/cache directory.
4. Delete the var/view_preprocessed directory.
5. Then, access the packt/bin directory.
6. Run the php magento setup:static-content:deploy ...