Parent theme necessary?

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I am creating custom theme in magento 2. Is it necessary to assign parent theme to my new custom theme.

 <parent>Vendor/theme</parent>

I want to develop whole things from the scratch, that's why I don't want to include parent theme.

no need if you develop everything on your own, if not you suppose get basic thins like parent styles and layout from parent theme. That's why we include parent theme — Prathap Gunasekaran, Mar 15 '19 at 12:15

Rakesh Donga · Answer 1 · 2019-03-15T13:05:50.413

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Parent theme is not necessary to defined it

It is not necessary to define parent theme check here
also if you do not set a parent theme you can create all your own CSS of theme becuase it is scratch
also if you want to create your parent theme in template,layout,css,extension then here available

edited Mar 15 '19 at 13:05

answered Mar 15 '19 at 12:15

Rakesh Donga

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What if I want to create all the thing (property, layout, template files, and styles) in my new theme. Do I need to use parent theme now? – Muhammad Bilal khan Mar 15 '19 at 12:17
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No you don't need but that doesn't make sense, you can customise anything by inheriting parent theme instead of creating all the page layouts from the scratch @MuhammadBilalkhan – Prathap Gunasekaran Mar 15 '19 at 12:19
i know customiza all thing in custom theme but sometime is needed is parent theme check default reference : https://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.3/frontend-dev-guide/themes/theme-inherit.html @MuhammadBilalkhan – Rakesh Donga Mar 15 '19 at 12:20
Thanks @PrathapGunasekaran, I think I am getting your point – Muhammad Bilal khan Mar 15 '19 at 12:22
Thank Rakesh for the answer – Muhammad Bilal khan Mar 15 '19 at 12:23
@PrathapGunasekaran can you copy your comment to answer? – Muhammad Bilal khan Mar 15 '19 at 12:23
Rakesh. +1 for your support and your effort – Muhammad Bilal khan Mar 15 '19 at 12:24
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@RakeshDonga has given the same, do accept this answer because that doesn't make sense provide repeating answer for single question.Hope you understand – Prathap Gunasekaran Mar 15 '19 at 12:25
That's acceptable. Thanks @PrathapGunasekaran for your support – Muhammad Bilal khan Mar 15 '19 at 12:26
The whole point of creating a theme from scratch is to not use the parent theme. – Ben Crook Mar 15 '19 at 12:39
Also, templates, layouts javascript etc. are defined in modules not the parent theme. The default themes mostly contain CSS, check https://github.com/magento/magento2/tree/2.3-develop/app/design/frontend/Magento/blank out. – Ben Crook Mar 15 '19 at 12:40
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@PrathapGunasekaran thanks i have updated it – Rakesh Donga Mar 15 '19 at 12:49

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 15 '19 at 12:38

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No it is not necessary, if you do not set a parent theme you can create all your CSS from scratch. See this post for an example - Theming for Magento 2 - Starting from scratch

answered Mar 15 '19 at 12:38

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