useful.md

Useful tips

Magento development

Pro tips :-) :

Add symfony dumper and Mark Shust's super two-factor auth module :

composer require symfony/var-dumper --dev
composer require mshust/magento2-two-factor-authentication
bin/magento setup:upgrade

Symfony dumper permits to dump large variables in the browser, using :

dump($variable);
//or
dd($variable); //dump and die

Mark Shust's module allows you to activate/deactivate two-factor auth from the command line.

bin/magento config:set twofactorauth/general/enable 0
bin/magento cache:flush

CLI

This environment is shipped with a magento cli. You can use it with the following command :

bin/magento <command>

To get the list of all available commands, you can use the following command :

bin/magento list

As for Symfony, you do not need to write the full command. You can use the first letters of the command. For example, you can use

bin/magento c:f

instead of

bin/magento cache:flush

If the shortcut correspond to two or more commands, you will have a list of the commands available.

You can use it for all the commands of magento provided the ownership of files is correct. As Magento populates the generated folder and I flush it quite often. I added a command to clean that folder. And another one to clean the log folder.

bin/cleangenerated
bin/cleanlogs

This environment is also shipped with a magerun. You can use it with the following command :

bin/magerun <command>