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  Magento 2

  Magento fundamentals: what are the differences between custom and extension attributes?

  By Alessandro Ronchi | 13 July 2021
  Introduction The purpose of this article is to shed some light on the flexible yet not-so-intuitive entity attribute system offered by Magento 2.
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  Magento 2

  Magento fundamentals: helper decomposition

  By Alessandro Ronchi | 4 May 2021
  What’s an helper According to Wikipedia’s definition, “in object-oriented programming, a helper class is used to assist in providing some functionality, which isn’t the main goal of the application or class in which it is used.
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  Magento 2

  Magento fundamentals: what are the differences between collections and repositories?

  By Alessandro Ronchi | 6 April 2021
  One of the most frequent question when manipulating entities in Magento 2 is: “should I use a repository or a collection?
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  Magento 2

  Magento fundamentals: what are the differences between events and plugins?

  By Alessandro Ronchi | 2 March 2021
  Plugins are the brand new way of extending Magento 2 and, as often happens according to the law of the instrument, if all we have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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  Magento 2

  Magento fundamentals: why we shouldn't (almost never) use the Object Manager

  By Alessandro Ronchi | 2 February 2021
  This article is the first of a series inspired by some basic knowledge required for developing on Magento 2.