Magento is a popular open source e-commerce platform written in PHP. It is used primarily for building web shops, though it can easily be used for other types of websites as well. With the help of its powerful web API, we can build robust solutions that satisfy modern-day application requirements.

By the end of this book, the reader should be familiar with configuration files, models, collections, blocks, controllers, events, observers, plugins, UI components and other building elements of Magento.