We all have a lot of knowledge of Magento 1.x. When moving to Magento 2 its good if we can use that knowledge rather than just starting from scratch. Here are a number of things that I’ve found useful.
Ignoring frontend logic the important directories I can see so far are:
app/code/Magento– Holds Magento implementation modules, e.g Customer, Cart, Checkoutinternal/Magento/Framework– Magento Framework e.g. Session Handling, SQL Setup, Cachepub/errors– Can move the local.xml.sample to local.xml so you don’t have to keep looking in report directory!!vendor– 3rd Party libraries loaded via composerapp/code/<Vendor>– 3rd Party magento extensionsapp/etc/env.php– db credentials, replaces local.xml?var/cache, var/generation & var/page_cache– Delete these 3 directories to fully flush cachedev/tests– Unit Tests
To create a module start off by just adding it under app/code/. You can move it to composer later (it should live in vendor/). Yes I know everyone will shout at me for not doing it from Composer first. But its a total pain, until you get more experienced just shortcut it.