Preface

The book will support you in the writing of innovative and complex extensions. Starting at the beginning, this book will cover how to set up a development environment, such as GIT registering and many other development tools, which allows you to be really efficient in your functionality writing. We will then move on to a broad overview of the best practices for scaling your module in a high-load environment. After these foundations, we will see how to use Test-Driven Development (TDD) and unit tests to handle our code. We will build a complex, international-ready extension together step by step. Next, we will see how to protect the final user's data.

Finally, we will see how to publish the extension to the new Magento Connect marketplace and protect your intellectual property.

After reading this book, you will have learned everything you need to become an invaluable extension editor, whether it is for your customers' needs or for your own requirements.