Dive Into Symfony 4

Symfony 4 is all about making the developer life easier. You liked using SF for large and robust apps, you'll love using it for your next MVP, prototype or small project.

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1. Dive Into Symfony 4
2. Kévin Dunglas •Founder of Les-Tilleuls.coop •Symfony Core Team •API Platform Creator @dunglas
3. Les-Tilleuls.coop •Self-managed company since 2011 •100% owned by employees •All benefits are equitably shared between employees •21 people, 97% growth in 2016 •We are hiring! => jobs@les-tilleuls.coop
4. Symfony 4?
5. Roadmap
6. Don’t worry! It’s almost ready… and you can try it now.
7. BC Promise and Upgrade Path •Released at the same time than Symfony 3.4 •SF 3.4 is compatible with SF 3.0:
 BC layer + deprecation notices •SF 4 = SF 3.4, without the BC layer •SF 3.4 is a LTS
8. Symfony Flex
9. Symfony Flex •A new installer for Symfony •It also installs and configures bundles and libs •One goal: improve the overall Symfony DX •It’s a Composer plugin •Designed and developed by Fabien Potencier
10. Create a New Project …
11. Microframework by Default
12. Minimal Deps, PHP 7.1
14. You Want to Use Docker? dunglas/
 symfony-docker-skeleton
15. Simplified Directory Structure ;
 
 No More AppBundle!
16. Microkernel, in src/
17. 12-Factor Apps and Env Vars Good bye `parameters.yml`!
18. Cherry-pick what you Need
19. Bundles Autoregistration and Config
20. Appropriate Files
 and Dir are Created
 
 Packages can also be
 Removed
21. It’s Time to Learn Make Again
23. Install and Configure Curated Packages •composer req orm => Doctrine ORM •composer req api => API Platform •composer req admin => EasyAdminBundle •composer req jwt-auth => LexikJWTAuthenticationBundle
24. Autowiring
25. 0-config: Autowiring Everywhere
26. Symfony 4 and Autowiring •On by default •Service ID = class name •Detects and registers automatically app’s classes as services •Autoconfigures known class (= autowire + add tags)
 ex: event subscriber, validation constraint, twig ext… •Supports named arguments (App\Foo: {$arg: ‘hello’}) •Uses PSR-11
27. Webpack Encore
28. Webpack Encore •A modern and easy way to manage assets •Built on top of Webpack •Babel support (welcome ES200*) •Written in JS •Created by Ryan Weaver
29. Install yarn add
 @symfony/webpack-encore babel-cli babel-preset-env babel-preset-es2017 --dev
30. A Basic Config File (ES2017)
31. The Related Template
32. Questions? Thanks! github.com/dunglas @dunglas