With Adobe’s acquisition of Magento now complete and artificial intelligence changing the landscape of business like never before, we were excited to hear what thought leaders and innovators had to say about the future of ecommerce at Meet Magento UK on Wednesday.

As the GDPR deadline loomed, many marketeers were more than a little apprehensive about the loss of precious customer data that had been collected over many years.

Magento 2 offers a robust workflow for creating API’s for your modules, from handling simple post requests, to more advanced search queries of your models. However, Magento 2 does present some constraints initially when determining what type of data your API calls should return.

Ecommerce is an industry that is constantly developing and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. With so many new and exciting opportunities, it is easy to forget the basics.

Now that we have all recovered from the sprint to become GDPR compliant, there is another date that everyone should be adding to their diary.

If you’re used to PHP MVC frameworks like Laravel or Symphony you may have noticed already that performing these relatively simple actions in Magento2 is more complicated than it first appears…