Best practices

This section covers a broad scope of community-contributed best and leading practices, common solutions, and recommendations for Magento Open Source projects.

Topics and areas include:

• Project setup
• Theme development
• Composer use and repos
• Local environment options
• And much more

Adobe-approved best practices

The Adobe team verifies and provides the following best practices and recommendations:

• Data migration and benchmarking best practices
• Best Practices for Extension Development
• Upgrade Best Practices
• Programming Best Practices
• Observers Best Practices
• Theme Development Best Practices
• Performance Best Practices
• Best Practices for Store Configuration for Adobe Commerce on cloud infrastructure
• Deployment Process for Adobe Commerce on cloud infrastructure

Want to contribute?

We encourage you to participate in our open documentation initiative. If you have suggestions, corrections, additions, or deletions for this documentation, check out the source on GitHub, and open a pull request.

Some PRs may require architectural and internal development reviews to verify and approve the contributed best practices. These reviews may require more time to complete before merging content.