Managing products on a daily basis may not be one of the most entertaining tasks. The product grid in Magento 1 is, out of the box, not the best tool. Lots of merchants install a third-party extension for better use and configuration. Depending on the extension, it is possible to tune the grid accordingly.
Now the new Magento 2 catalog grid is better than ever. Every backend user can create their own view and select the appropriate attributes for the best view ever.
Besides all the fancy features, the product grid loads asynchronously, which means that the page refreshes its data in the background. This is great for performance and user experience.
To step through this recipe, you will use a Droplet created in Chapter 2, Magento 2 System Tools, at DigitalOcean (https://www.digitalocean.com/). We will be using an NGINX, PHP-FPM, Composer-based setup including a single Magento 2 website, Root Catalog, store view, categories, and attributes and four...