Some new features on Magento 2.3

1. 1. Friendly page builder - Bluefoot CMS

The new launched version of Magento releases a page builder interface that is friendly even to non-developers. This responsive interface allows Magento users to build an engaging and dynamic CMS pages just by dragging and dropping the elements. This new feature of Magento 2.3 will be included in Commerce version and will be available on marketplace for Open source version

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2. 2. Asynchronous API

• Different from traditional API, Magento Asynchronous Web API provides users with ability to make a request without waiting the response from server which is really a huge advantage for big site that receives large amount of API requests daily. Let’s take an example to understand how beneficial Asynchronous API could be: Imagine that you make some changes to your ERP system and trying to sync these changes with Magento Inventory API.  Using traditional API can take long time to wait for server’s response, the bigger the amount of changes and products, the longer it takes

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3. 3. Cache Management ACL

• Like magento 1, magento 2 have many cache types and an single action to cache can cause a bad performance to the whole system. Understanding this disadvantage, Magento 2.3 provides Cache Management ACL that interferes deeper in admin permission: it can grant separate access to admin account. For example: Magento 2.3 allows that only super admin can flush Magento cache

• Role

4. 4. Multi Stock Inventory

• Multi Stock Inventory allows merchants to define multiple stock locations: website, marketplace, POS,....

• Why did Magento start?

• Need multiple warehouse

• Cant split inventory for a single product

Detail: https://www.slideshare.net/maghamed/multisource-inventory-imagine-las-vegas-2018

5. 5. PWA

• Progressive Web App: is invented by google

• Why we should use PWA?

• Work like a native app

• Cache, offline

• Push notification

• The first Magento will provide a toolkit that helo developer can build Progressive Web App on Magento platform

6. 6. Message Queue

• Is an asynchronous communications protocol

• sender does not require an immediate response to continue processing.

• A message queue is designed for optimizing a system by proving a task queue need to complete

Example: when your system connect to an ERP software, auto import or export,...

7. 7. Two factor authentication

• This new released version of Magento provides an additional layer of security for magento store which store owners can configure at admin panel. This 2 factor authentication will require users to verify via sms, phone call, access token… after finishing login steps

• Magento 2.3 version will support 3 authentication methods:

• Google Authenticator

• Duo Security

• Authy

8. 8. Google Recaptcha

• Taking advantage from Google Recaptcha free service, Magento 2.3 platform provides this feature to protect Magento sites from spam and abuse. Using an advanced risk analysis engine, Google Recaptcha requires human verification thus detect any malicious or spam activities that can reduce site spam and abuse

• All pages that site owners can secure

• Login

• Register

• Contact form

• Forgot password

• Admin Login

9. 9. Graphql: updating