Magento News Weekly #061: Interview With Miguel Ignacio, Magento vs. Shopify Comic Showdown, and Getting Started With Magento 2 REST API

Here is the latest batch of Magento weekly news that aims to fire up your weekend. Now, let’s run through all that has happened in the past 7 days in the world of Magento. Firstly, we look into how Magento and Shopify have been duking it out with one another for quite a while now. It has been an epic clash that prompted us to compare their rivalry to that of comic book characters Iron Man and Batman. Assuming they are anything like the aforementioned iconic fictional heroes, who could possibly emerge as the ultimate victor as the better ecommerce platform? Next, we see how the Magento 2 API framework allows developers to create new services for the sake of communicating with Magento 2 stores. Although using REST API for Magento 2 is relatively simple, you still need to understand the method of calling APIs in PHP. Here is your weekly dose of expert’s interview: Interview with Miguel Ignacio by Syed Muneeb Ul Hasan. And here are all the tutorials and articles for the week: How to Add Pages in Magento CMS by Ahsan Parwez. How to Add Admin Notification Messages in Magento 2 by Dmytro Cheshun. 20 Best Free Magento Themes You Should be Using in 2017 by Sunyyan Junaid. 3 Magento 2 Extensions That Will Improve Your Conversion Rates by Fayyaz Khattak. Magento 2 Extension Review: SEO Suite Ultimate by MageWorx by Sunyyan Junaid. 10 Things You Need to Consider When Hiring a Subcontractor by Dave Garbe. Cookies, Full Page Cache, and Private Data Tracking in Magento 2 by Adam Moss. Top 16 Magento Ecommerce Website Designs of 2017 by Sunyyan Junaid. So ends another recap of Magento weekly roundup news. Be sure to catch us next week for another line of recent developments that will keep you updated on the most recent happenings in the Magento community.