Hyvä Themes — The Book.
The complete book on building fast, modern Magento storefronts with Hyvä.
We know all about Hyvä — we literally wrote the book on it. From theme architecture to Alpine.js and Tailwind: everything you need to build maintainable, high-performance frontends. Written by Peter Jaap Blaakmeer, based on years of running Hyvä in production.
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What you will learn
Hyvä Themes — The Book takes you from the fundamentals of the Hyvä architecture to advanced patterns: Tailwind CSS, Alpine.js, GraphQL and building your own modules.
With real-world examples, performance tips and the decisions we make at elgentos on actual Magento projects.
Table of contents
- 01 Setting Up the Local Environment
- 02 Installing the Magento Application
- 03 Introduction to Hyvä Theming
- 04 Hyvä Features at a Glance
- 05 The Layout System
- 06 Working with Templates
- 07 Styling a Hyvä Theme with Tailwind CSS
- 08 Customizing Emails
- 09 Introduction to JavaScript in Hyvä
- 10 Working with Alpine.js
- 11 Hyvä JavaScript Patterns and Practices
- 12 Hyvä Components and View Utilities
- 13 Storefront-Related Configuration in the Admin Panel
- 14 Working with Magento CMS
- 15 Frontend Performance in Hyvä
- 16 Common Tools that Help with Local Development
- 17 Hyvä Checkout
- 18 Hyvä Commerce and Hyvä CMS
- 19 End-to-End Testing with Playwright
- 20 AI-Assisted Development with Hyvä AI Skills
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