Getting to know about Magento 2 Areas is one of the basic and important concepts required to understand the Magento 2 development. Magento 2 areas helps in code organisation for a better development workflow and also for organizing the request calls.
Magento 2 area is a logical component that helps in organization of the code and also optimization of request processing. The web service calls are streamlined using the areas so that only the codes that are required for that particular web request are being loaded.
Following are the different area codes in Magento 2:
- adminhtml (Admin)
- frontend (Storefront)
- base (Base)
- crontab (Cron)
- webapi_rest (REST API)
- webapi_soap (SOAP API)
- graphql (GraphQL)
Now lets looks at each of these areas in brief:
Admin (adminhtml):
The adminhtml area contains all the files that are required for the visual design and functions of the Magento 2 Admin Panel area.
Storefront (frontend):
The frontend Magento 2 area would contains the necessary files related to the customer facing store front.
Base (base):
This area is used as a fall back whenever there is a file missing in the frontend or adminhtml areas.
Cron (crontab):
The crontab.xml that we can create inside the etc folder is what is used for creating and configuring cron in Magento 2. The \Magento\Framework\App\Cron class file is what loads the Magento 2 crontab.xml file.
REST API (webapi_rest):
The webapi_rest area contains functionalities that facilitates creating and customizing features related to sending and receiving REST API requests.
SOAP API (webapi_soap):
The webapi_soap area contains functionalities that facilitates creating and customizing features related to sending and receiving SOAP API requests.
GraphQL (graphql):
The GraphQL is a new feature that was introduced after Magento 2.3 was released and is the most preferable method of API communication especially while implementing Headless commerce and Mobile apps. It facilitates high speed data transfer and also offers flexibility and effectiveness. This area can be utilized to develop and customize the functionalities related to the GraphQL API.
