A lot is going on in the Magneto world, and this update will help you be on top of what to expect from Magento and Adobe Commerce in 2025.
Magento Open Source
After Adobe rebranded Magento Commerce to Adobe Commerce, there started to be confusion about the future of Magento Open Source. Magento Association wasn’t responsive and was not making any progress regarding healing the Magneto brand after “Magento is not Adobe Commerce” commercials. That’s why Mage-OS was created.
Mage-OS
Mage-OS is an open-source fork of Magento, created to support developers and Magento Open Source users as a fallback in case issues arise with the original Magento Open Source distribution. The foundation was funded, and the whole infrastructure was built. Currently, the Mage-OS Association is building a knowledge base with keen to show the real difference between Mage-OS, Magento Open Source, and Adobe Commerce. They introduced nightly builds https://upstream-nightly.mage-os.org/ so you can test new things earlier.
From a development perspective, they working on a new better admin panel, and improvements to the performance of the indexer and web installer to make Magento more user-friendly.
You can learn more about Mage-OS on the website: https://mage-os.org/ and read regular updates: https://mage-os.org/updates/.
Magento Association
After some worse years, the Magneto Association is moving forward. Last year they voted for new Board Members. They merged forces with Mage-OS to make Magento return to the community, bought back the Magento brand, and started promoting Magneto Open Source https://magento-opensource.com/. It looks like Magento Open Source, the association and the community around it is back and strong again. Looking at the Magento Association’s latest update: https://www.magentoassociation.org/commerce-co-op/full-article/announcing-the-renewed-vision-for-magento-association-driving-new-initiatives-empowering-the-future-together.
They are focused on providing open communication, and collaboration between the community and Adobe and working on making the Magento brand hot again.
New Frontend
In previous years there was a lot of trying to improve Magento Frontend, with the era of PWA, and back to monolith again. But the winner is…
Hyvä
Hyvä was created out of frustration with the current Magento frontend which is slow and outdated and PWAs which have not always provided better performance but always provided higher costs of development.
Hyvä is built on Alpine.JS and TailwindCSS, it keeps all the things we like about Magento Frontend and removes all we hate. Checkout more at https://www.hyva.io/.
As the new stack was introduced they needed to convince other vendors to start making compatibility modules to Hyvä Frontend, and they did, over 800 third-party modules are compatible with Hyvä: https://gitlab.hyva.io/hyva-public/module-tracker/-/boards.
Hyvä Checkout
After the revolution in the frontend theme, they moved to the checkout. With the use of Magento’s port of Laravel’s Livewire, they created checkout based on PHP, not on Knockout JS, which sounds promising. https://www.hyva.io/hyva-checkout.html.
Alternative Frontends
Besides all PWAs, and headless frontends there are few alternatives to Luma (and Hyvä).
Breeze (https://breezefront.com/) is the main Hyvä concurrent, it’s main advantage is the open-source code.
There were other alternatives like Alpaca (https://github.com/SnowdogApps/magento2-alpaca-theme) but because of Hyvä, they are not maintained anymore.
Hyvä Commerce
The next product from Hyvä, they’s plan is to be an alternative to Adobe Commerce, but more focused on providing value to merchants and customers based on their experience and observations of current e-commerce needs, their product will fulfill the market needs and things that Magneto Open Source is missing. They currently working on the roadmap.
Adobe Commerce
The enterprise version of Magento is moving towards a Composable SaaS platform. We saw this starting when Adobe introduced Adobe Sensei: Live Search & Product Recommendations. Right now Adobe is integrating other parts of its ecosystem to provide customers with streamlined solutions. They introduced API Mesh, which allows extended commerce functionalities without writing Magneto code. Thanks to Adobe Experience Manager integrated with the store, merchants can build more dynamic content based on marketing data.
From the developer’s perspective current focus is the Cloud which is now an integral part of Adobe Commerce offering an API-first approach that forces us to pay more attention to REST API and GraphQL.
Adobe is now more focused on providing regular updates and extending support for older Magento versions. (They extended support for versions 2.4.4 and 2.4.5 by one year). Given that Magento had some serious security vulnerabilities that were found in 2024, it’s good that they want to support older versions of Magento with patches and updates.
Other initiatives
The Magento community is highly motivated now. New modules and tools are appearing, and there are also many more exciting products coming that can revolutionize the Magneto ecosystem. E.q. on the last Magento Poznań Meetup, Ivan Chepurnyi showcased a new search engine that he currently works on, it can not only replace memory-heavy elasticsearch/opensearch but also provide much better performance and search functions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpTs0VWksTc.
What to expect from 2025?
Now, you don’t need to be a Magento Developer to work with Magneto (mostly Adobe Commerce). Adobe introduced many new layers to core Magento, so there are a lot of new opportunities. But if you are an open source enthusiast or just a Magento fan, it’s a great time to be one. More and more Clients are migrating to the Open Source version of Magento, either Magneto Open Source, or Mage-OS, and there are a lot of opportunities given that the AI era gives us, developers. New tools and new challenges: 2025 is going to be an exciting year for Magento and the whole e-commerce industry.
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