Mage is a Magento 2 library that makes magento backend easy again

\Mage:: Facades provide an old good static interface to Magento classes that are available in the application’s Mage service container (a place to store variables and objects to use them when needed). This means that we can use functions without making an object from a class. Facades provide a "static" interface to classes available in the application's service container. Mage ships with many facades provide access to all Magento 2 features.

Mage facades serve as "static proxies" to underlying classes in the service container, providing the benefit of a terse, expressive syntax while maintaining more flexibility than traditional magento methods.

Mage library is not only facades!

Magento 2 sucks, and Mage is here to resolve this issue. Adobe killed Magento with the scum and overengenered bloatware. Mage adding additional nice development features not available with Magento 2 core.

• Fast easy accesible facades
• Easy Logger
• Fast, accessible Object manager
• Symfony Dumper features
• Kint Backtrace and Debug
• Eloquent/Laravel Query Builder and ORM (powered by Laragento)

Advantages of the Mage::Facades

• improve the readability and usability by masking interaction with more complex components behind a single and often simplified API
• provide a context-specific interface to more generic functionality
• serve as a launching point for a broader refactor of monolithic or tightly-coupled Magento systems in favor of more loosely-coupled code

We have decided to use a facade design pattern because the magento 2 system is very overengenered/complex and obfuscated - difficult to understand because the system has many interdependent classes. The mage::facade pattern hides the complexities of the Magento 2 system and provides a simpler interface to the developers. It typically involves a single wrapper class containing a set of members the client requires. These members access the system on behalf of the facade clients and hide the implementation details.

Mage DB2 facade powered by Laravel query builder

Magento 2 uses an outdated Zend_DB library to implement a slow legacy ORM and interact with a database. Mage DB2, based on Laravel/DB, makes work with databases extremely simple and fast using raw SQL, a fluent Laravel query builder, and the Eloquent ORM in conjunction with the Laragento package.

Also, Laravel collections provide a variety of extremely powerful methods for mapping and reducing data. For more information, check the awesome Laravel documentation. https://laravel.com/docs/11.x/queries

Several examples:

Get all dates from the order table

$orders = DB2::table('sales_order');

Specify select statements

$users = DB2::table('users')
            ->select('name', 'email as user_email')
            ->get();

Join

$users = DB2::table('users')
            ->join('contacts', 'users.id', '=', 'contacts.user_id')
            ->join('orders', 'users.id', '=', 'orders.user_id')
            ->select('users.*', 'contacts.phone', 'orders.price')
            ->get();

Insert

DB2::table('users')->insert([
    ['email' => 'picard@example.com', 'votes' => 0],
    ['email' => 'janeway@example.com', 'votes' => 0],
]);

Video example of the using Magento DB2 (powered by Laravel) query builder:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Z-PzXoDxY