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mx/module-helper-bar
====================

Displays the magento product metadata and has an integrated commandline tool with various command shortcuts.

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\#MX Helper Bar

The **MX Helper** Bar for Magento 2 is intended to help store admins and operators by:

- showing at a glance which environment(Pipeline instance) they are using so they won't inadvertently make the changes to the wrong environment.
- acting as a super shortcut bar which allows you to quickly search and perform a list of common tasks, such as clearing cache types, without having to navigate away from the page.
- **New Feature:** Customizable Commands- easily add your own shortcuts for your customers, or yourself to speed up M2

[![Demo of Bob, the quick shortcut helper bar for Magento 2](use.gif)](use.gif)

Commands
--------

[](#commands)

What follows is a list of the commands currently available. This list will grow and get better with time (like wine!).

### Clear Cache (cc)

[](#clear-cache-cc)

This command will allow you to refresh cache types as if you were doing it from the Magento *Cache Management* page.

Start typing 'cc' in the Helper Bar textbox to see the list of available commmands. All the following are valid commands:

```
  > cc
  > cc configuration
  > cc database ddl operations

```

### Template Path and Block Hints (tph)

[](#template-path-and-block-hints-tph)

This command allow you to enable or disable template path hints as you were doing it from *Stores -> Configuration -> Advanced -> Developer -> Debug*

For instance choose *tph front en* and this will set: *Enabled Template Path Hints for Storefront* and *Add Block Names to Hints* to 'Yes'

instead, if you choose *tph en* this will enable the template hints on the storefront and in the adminhtml site area

### Navigation shortcut (nav)

[](#navigation-shortcut-nav)

The navigation shortcut commands allow you to quickly navigate to other magento pages. For instance choose *nav cms block* to be redirected to the Cms Blocks page.

If you want to contribute adding more shortcuts you can easily do so by editing the *etc/di.xml* file.

Add a new *virtualType* (see as an example *navigation\_redirect\_cms\_page*) and inject it as a new argument in the type *MX\\HelperBar\\Model\\NavigationRedirectRepository*

Installing
----------

[](#installing)

Then add the module to the require section of the composer file:

```
  $ ./php composer.phar require "mx/module-helper-bar": "~1.0.1"
```

This command will add:

```
  "require": {
    "mx/module-helper-bar": "~1.0.1"
  }
```

Enable
------

[](#enable)

Once the module is added as dependency, run the Magento setup module, clear the cache and make sure the module status is enabled.

```
  $ bin/magento setup:upgrade
  $ bin/magento c:c
  $ bin/magento module:status MX_HelperBar

```

Now that the module is enabled, you need to make the Helper Bar visible.

[![video of how to install ](install.gif)](install.gif)

Navigate to: *Stores -> Configuration -> Advanced -> Developer -> Debug*and select *"Yes"* for the option with label *"Enabled Helper Bar for Admin"*

Then refresh the page and you will see the Helper Bar at the bottom of the screen. If you wish, you can temporarily hide it by pressing the 'X' or using CTRL + ` as a keyboard shortcut.

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

By making this open source we hope others will gain value from it and use it as part of their projects. Please share any feedback, suggestions and additions so we can help make Magento 2 even faster, easier and simpler to work with and to develop amazing e-Commerce experiences on.

If you wish to contribute to the Helper Bar:

- Fork/Clone this repository
- Install the module
- Create a feature branch with descriptive name (i.e. feature/magento-tasks)
- Make changes
- Push feature branch back to this repo
- Submit a PR with details of changes

\###Any Feedback?: Please kindly raise an issue in Github.

Contributors
------------

[](#contributors)

\###Dev Team

- James Cowie
- Alessandro Zucca
- Richard Thompson

\###Other team members who helped with the module

- Paal Soberg
- Grant Kemp
- Alex Blaney
- Andrew Bennett

\###Inspiration Massive thanks to the Graze.com Team for inspiring this project and agreeing to let us open source the results, especially:

- Jason Malone
- Joe Meehan
- Joe Ferrelly

###  Health Score

29

—

LowBetter than 57% of packages

Maintenance18

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity13

Limited adoption so far

Community16

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity60

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 86.5% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~24 days

Total

2

Last Release

3577d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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