Mastering Magento 2: Maximize the power of Magento 2 to create productive online stores, 2nd Edition

This book like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest :)) perfect for readers who are eager to comprehend the essence of complicated Magento system. Many thanks to the writers and to Amazon for this excellent publication.

I wonder if the people writing these reviews actually used this book. They couldn't have because there's typos everywhere and if you followed this book line for line little would work out of the box. For instance, Setting up multiple websites and stores (first 30 pages). Obviously the editors failed to update the code. They start referencing using a furniture and sportswear stores for examples. Then all of a sudden they're talking about an electronic store with different codes. I could understand if this was differences between 2.0 and 2.2 but this is just pure editorial mistakes. Next, If you look at the .htaccess file code the use env variables MAGE_RUN_CODE and MAGE_RUN_TYPE and then look at the virtual hosts code and they have MAGE_RUN_CODE and MAGE_RUN_STORE. This won't work for the website that's why you have MAGE_RUN_TYPE in your htaccess file. Luckily I had to spend hours going through stack overflow to realize this.If you use this book, use it for direction but the code will leave you frustrated thinking YOU did something wrong when in reality they have bad code in the book. So what we're doing now is following the book's explanations and referencing the Magento 2 website for actual code examples since the Magento 2 site lack explanation.For $40 a pop, you expect subtle differences between 2.0 to 2.2 but this is just pure sloppiness.

For anyone building a new website on Magento 2, this is a required reading. It gives you a good overall framework to build on further knowledge. If you are an advanced Magento programmer this may not be for you as I think its written for beginners. Cheers!

Magento 2 has changed since this was made, so it is already partly out of date

Four years ago, when I first read the previous edition of this book, I tought: "Wow, this is the book I'd love to have written". Well, on this second edition, at least I can say: "I was honored about being invited to review the second edition and after that I love even more this book".That said, I can state that Bret Williams and Jonathan Bownds have done an amazing job when updating and expanding this "Mastering Magento" book, including the new version of this powerful ecommerce platform.This is not a book for beginners as its title says. But if you have the basic knowledge about Magento, this is the book you must have on your shelf or e-reader. It contains a series of "how I didn't think about that before" moments, explaining how to get your store into the next level and to get more and more from Magento. The most important, you have a step by step, with the major parts of the process of launching and running an online store with Magento 2.

To my knowledge this is the one and only book about Magento 2 that isn't written for developers. It deals with setting up a store from the administrator side and covers most of (if not all) the features of Magento 2.This book is complete and clear at a time. It helps me taking the right decisions for my e-commerce business.In the past I had many Internet pages, forums, etc. Now I have this book!

If you are planning to build your own store, It provides the complete idea regarding how to find a hosting provider, set up products, setup taxes, set up multistore etc. It focuses mostly on the backend configurations and setups.But if you are a Magento2 developer this book will not be very useful to you.