Symfony Console Facelift

Description: Console is one of the most widely used Symfony components and is the 5 top most downloaded PHP package overall.

From mission-critical tools like Composer to other popular PHP frameworks as finally end applications, it's ubiquitous. The impact of this is that changing something into the component is hard - even the smallest bug fix is likely to break thousands of uses.

Nevertheless, the component is constantly improving thanks to countless contributions it receives since its been introduced in 2010, while we take care of preserving backward compatibility
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But we think it's time for a facelift, not least to open up the component to more possibilities and rid it of some design issues. That's why we, a few key contributors have been working intensively to revisit it.

It's happening now! And hopefully it will be publicly available in the next Symfony feature version. That's what I'm gonna show you.

Get ready to rediscover the Console!

Transcript

1. Console Facelift
2. Robin Chalas github.com/chalasr chalasr.bsky.social x.com/chalas_r PHP Consultant / Symfony Core Team / baksla.sh Co-founder
4. Eases the creation of beautiful and testable command line interfaces.
5. 900M installs overall 500K daily
6. Most used PHP package in production. 6th
9. Forced Inheritance
10. All we should need
11. What we actually got
12. legacy™
13. Boilerplate
14. Lacks types
15. Commands are to Console what Controllers are to Http.
17. Fixed!
19. How cool is this?
23. How it works
24. Builds on existing infrastructure
25. The InvokableCommand wrapper
26. Conceptual differences and Limitations
27. No interact() method
28. Future scope
29. Validator Constraints Soon™
30. Command Arguments Resolvers
31. Command Arguments Resolvers
32. Adapt MakerBundle PR Welcome!™ You’ll please Ryan 🧡
33. 🧡
34. 🧡
36. Thank you 🍻