What you need for this book
Store owners using this book to learn Magento 2 should have an installed version of Magento 2 to work with. Developers should have a development environment capable of supporting a Magento 2 installation:
- A Unix operating system (Linux, MacOS X)
- Composer
- Apache 2.2 or 2.4, or Nginx 1.8.x web server
- PHP 5.5, 5.6 or 7.0.2
- MySQL 5.6.x
Developers are also required to have a good working knowledge of PHP, object-oriented programming, and MVC architecture.