Written by Jisse Reitsma on 20 Aug 2017

Within the Magento 2 checkout, JavaScript components have access to a variable window.checkoutConfig that contains useful stuff when dealing with the checkout logic (payment providers, checkout agreements, etcetera). However, using the window object in your JS library is a wrong thing to do. How to deal with this annoying variable?

Written by Jisse Reitsma on 18 Aug 2017

If you know the Magento community in Germany, you know about Firegento: It organizes various community events in Germany and it also hosts a Satis repository of composer packages. We are proud that Yireo is now also an official Firegento member! Isn't that weird?

Written by Jisse Reitsma on 12 Aug 2017

With Magento 2.2 on the roadmap for September, various new improvements popped up on the radar. One of these is the concept of ViewModels, offloading features from Block classes into separate ViewModel classes. But do we need to wait until Magento 2.2 before we can use these ViewModels?

Written by Jisse Reitsma on 8 Aug 2017

And we're proud to announce the next major speaker in line: Mathias Verraes. Many people in the Magento community don't know him yet - while they should. It's awesome to have this authoritative speaker come on stage with MageTestFest, for various reasons.

Written by Jisse Reitsma on 7 Aug 2017

The Dutch know their stuff. If you're not Dutch, you probably have heard this. If you're Dutch, you probably don't know what that means, because we are just busy doing our stuff. Anyway, one of those things about the Dutch is that Magento-wise we're quite busy. Here's a peek at some of the things that we are up to.

Written by Jisse Reitsma on 3 Aug 2017

This November 2017, we are organizing an international Magento developer conference in The Netherlands - MageTestFest. And we are extremely proud to announce Sebastian Bergmann, founder of PHPUnit, as prime speaker. He is the main man for this main job at this main conference. And you're about to find out why.

Written by Jisse Reitsma on 8 Jul 2017

When having installed Magento 2 somewhere, you might encounter the following error in the frontend: We're sorry, an error has occurred while generating this email.. This guide helps you troubleshoot this issue.

Written by Jisse Reitsma on 17 Jun 2017

Next week, MagentoLive UK awaits us. And it is also your chance to dive into Magento 2 theming, including an in-to-depth JavaScript training in London. Check out the details.

Written by Jisse Reitsma on 13 Jun 2017

For about half a year to one year, the community is buzzing on headless Magento. For newcomers, it is a little bit hard to grasp why this is needed. Or what it actually involves. And it seems different people decide on the concept for different reasons. Let's dive a little bit in the details of what and how.

Written by Jisse Reitsma on 3 Jun 2017

In the past few months, I have heard of more and more projects going live with Magento 2. However, not always the projects go live as they should. For instance, sometimes Magento 2 shops go live with the Developer Mode still being active. From a developer point of view, this is a big no-no. But as newcomer with Magento 2, this might be something you need to learn about. To make sure, Magento 2 shops are optimized before being put to production, here is a checklist to help you.

Written by Jisse Reitsma on 18 May 2017

We are proud to announce you that MageTestFest is officially on. The date is set on November 17th 2017, the site is live and we are proud to announce our first speaker: Vinai Kopp.

Written by Jisse Reitsma on 15 May 2017

Last week, MeetMagento Netherlands 2017 (#mm17nl) took place. Though I'm biased (I was part of the organizing team), it was a blast. Here's a small recap of what was up.