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[James]

Magento is the most popular open source platform. Releasing from 2008, Magento 1 provides many versions that serve different objects. In order to improve features of the leading eCommerce platform, Magento team continues to develop Magento 2. On November 2015, Magento 2 is released to the Magento community. Magento 2 is the next generation open source platform that is faster, easier and more secure than Magento 1. It is available for download both versions at http://magento.com/

In this article, LitExtension will share the points we know about new features of Magento 2. If you want to upgrade to Magento 2, I think you might find many helpful information after reading this article.

 

New File Structure

With Magento 2, everything is placed directly under the “app” structure, except for config.xml. It is easy for you to access all templates, layouts and js, css file. Magento 2 gives developers more opportunities for customization without changing site functionality.

 

 

New Built-in Technologies Under The Hood.

 

Reduce upgrade costs and efforts

Magento 2 allows you to install and upgrade core software and extensions quickly and simply with lower upgrade costs and efforts. Magento 2 includes information on versioning policies, so developers can upgrade to new version easier. However, you need the support of new standalone installer to set up Magento 2 faster.

 

Improved Performance and Scalability

The new default indexers in Magento 2 allows you to improve speed of query performance with more efficient updates. Magento performance toolkit is the key to optimize system performance. Developer can create test environments and set up automated test easily. Moreover, Magento 2 integrated with Varnish Cache to reduce server load and speed up the page load.

 

jQuery Library

Prototype is the main JavaScript Library in Magento CE 1.7 – 1.9 and EE 1.11 – 1.14, which targets to ease development of dynamic web applications. The demand from Magento Community rises, jQuery becomes the new default JavaScript library.

 Keep reading: http://blog.litexten...to-1-x-and-2-0/

[RichardWashington]

Magento came up with the release of its next-gen digital commerce platform, Magento 2.0 and launched it, at MagentoLive Australia. Vice President of eCommerce Products, Paul Boisvert, spokesperson of the event, shared brief overview of the Magento Commerce portfolio, which now includes e-commerce and cloud-based Omni channel solutions.

Difference between Magento 1 & Magento 2

 

Reduce upgrade costs and efforts

Magento 2 allows you to install and upgrade core software and extensions quickly and simply with lower upgrade costs and efforts. Magento 2 includes information on versioning policies, so developers can upgrade to new version easier. However, you need the support of new standalone installer to setup Magento 2.0 faster.

 

Enhanced Performance & Scalability in Magento 2

 

• Magento 2 convey speed with the extremely fast page load time for home, category and product pages( <1.5 second per page) on first view. And more rapid time when the pages will catch( <0.75 second per page)
• Each step has checkout process designed for page tool( < 1.9 seconds per step) you can convert more sale
• Provide smoother shopping experience by minimizing and bundling javascript, re-scaling images and by integrating Varnish cache for better site performance
• You can go big for magento thanks to use database for order management, catalog and checkout
• Magento 2.0 allows developer to setup automated test easily. There was no such provision in Magento 1.x.
• Magento 1.x uses APIs whereas Magento2.x uses Service contracts.
• Reduced table locking in Magento 2.x. Magento 1.x uses more database heavy operations comparatively.
• The architecture is more component oriented - If you don’t need any module you can disable it without hacking other modules or worrying about it affecting the functionality of other modules.
• Better and streamlined checkout flow is available in Magento 2.0.
• Very obvious change is in the directory structure of Magento 2.0.
• Better security in Magento 2.x.

You can Find Detail Information @ Magento 1.x vs Magento 2.0: A Feature List Comparison

[annanguyen]

Magento 2.0 has been released at the end of 2015. There are more difference in file structure of Magento 1.x vs Magento 2.0, we can say that it is impossible to upgrade to 2.0 like you used in 1.x. So many store owners want to upgrade their store to Magento 2 to take full advantage of this new eCommerce platform, how will you do if you want to upgrade your Magento 1.x to 2.0?

At the end of 2015, LitExtension developed successfully an amazing tool to migrate store from Magento 1.x to Magento 2.0 called “Magento to Magento Migration Tool”.  Moving to the latest version will obviously be beneficial for most Magento users. LitExtension supports migration with all Magento 1.x versions to 2.0.

• Upgrade Magento 1.4 to 2.0
• Upgrade Magento 1.5 to 2.0
• Upgrade Magento 1.6 to 2.0
• Upgrade Magento 1.7 to 2.0
• Upgrade Magento 1.8 to 2.0
• Upgrade Magento 1.9 to 2.0