Based on some early theme conversion work in Magento 2 – it looks like the view.xml theme fallback is an all or other thing. If your new theme’s view.xml file is missing an image that’s defined in the parent theme file, Magento explodes when trying to find the parent image file.
astormCan’t Create URLs Shorter than Three Characters · Issue #2910 · magento/magento2 Reminder: In Magento 2 (as in Magento 1) a route’s name is how Magento internally identifies the route, and uses it for creating things like layout handles. The front name is what shows up in the URL bar. These are very often the same, but [...]
astormCan’t Create URLs with Single Dashes · Issue #2910 · magento/magento2 One of the downsides of creating a new framework is you end up creating the same problems that have already been solved in other frameworks. For some reason Magento 2 wants all URL “front names” (the first URL segment) to be three characters long, and [...]
astormMagento 2: Different static-asset Files Per Locale? To save you a click view/[area]/web/hello.js view/[area]/web/i18n/fr_FR/hello.js
astormLast time we discussed how Magento serves and generates front end (javascript, css) files to end users from its own modules. Like most of Magento's feature, if it's done in a core module, third party developers can do it in their own modules. This
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