Magento- The only platform name popped-up in most of the minds, when development of an e-commerce application is talked about. Right? Of course it is..
According to research, Magento’s market share among 30 most popular e-commerce platforms is around 30%.
The open source platform is ideal for building scalable application with brilliant performance and better code base. As, every process, system or software continue to evolve as per the business needs, Magento also required some major improvements and had potential pitfalls that was demanding upgrade.
So, Magento 2.0 version was released after the many years of development. However, this release was a great news for those who wanted to build a new application, but puzzle out those who already has app built in Magento 1 platform.
Before Magento 2 was released, more than 240,000 shops in the market were using Magento 1. And, Magento 2 launch put these existing shops in the confusion of whether it’s the time to migrate to Magento 2 or stay with Magento 1.
Here’s the solution to every question connected to the migration of Magento 1 to Magento 2 that’s hammering you.
Certainly, those who are using Magento 1 knew that many challenges struck up when they were using Magento’s older version. The new upgrade of Magento will help them build robust digital commerce solution hassle-free.
Let’s see with what added features Magento 2 is endowed with that’s making it irresistible to use.
1) Technology stack
The minimum version of technology stack is upgraded with Magento 2. For instance, minimum version of PHP 5.5, MySQL 5.6, HTML5 and CSS3 is supported and made standard.
2) Improved performance
In newer upgrade, caching of category, product and CMS pages is done like static HTML pages. When the user will browse the page, the page will load faster as no database queries are required to run. All the pages’ cached version is stored in a folder that’s automatically updated when product is added, or edited. Consequently, performance get improved, load time is reduced and application works seamlessly.
3) Speed up the page loading
To build a page, dozens of JS were required to be loaded in Magento 1 and the number of JS is reduced to a great extent in Magento 2, which resulting in page gets load faster. Besides, Javascript management is improved with JQuery and JS. JavaScript Bundling is also implemented that has reduced the page load time.
4) Easy customization
In Magento 2, the code base is organized such that all things related to a module are kept under a directory. Additionally, business logics and presentation logics are kept separate, so it becomes easy to customize the website.
5) Third party module integration
Certain APIs published by Magento 2 work as an interface to the modules. When any code is changed within the module, external modules will not be affected with code change and vice-versa. This way third party modules can be customized, enhanced and integrated seamlessly.
6) Modern code base
There is no place for the legacy extensions, old or bad code in Magento 2. Also, non-optimized codes cannot be placed in new upgrade.
7) Installations and upgrade become effortless
Magento 2 is designed to enable easier upgrade and installation of new features. This easiness help merchants to enjoy the latest product features and functionalities with more upgrades.
8) Testing becomes a breeze
Yes, Magento 2 is developed using automated test strategies that enable developers to write test cases and ensure the customization has not broken any basic functionality.
Magento test framework (MTF) allow developers to build functional tests for the Magento application that can be run at any time either independently, or all tests together. This MTF reduces the effort that goes into the user interaction testing.
What’s next?
The new upgrade of Magento is touted to be game changing for the app development. Even, Magento has announced that it will support Magento 1 only uptil 2018 and afterwards, it will stop adding new features to Magento 1.
It hints migrating your app to Magento 2 is the way to stay ahead of the game and advance. Offer top-notch services to your prospects with scalable web shop leveraging Magento 2.
