Symfony 4 / Flex

Keynote about Symfony 4 / Flex at SymfonyCon Cluj 2017

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1. Fabien Potencier
   @fabpot
   

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3. What is Symfony 4?
   = Symfony 3.4 LTS
   
   - deprecated features
   
   - long term support
   
   - PHP 5 support
   
   + new dev workflow via Flex
   

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4. Flex
   Composition over Inheritance
   

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5. Flex in 1 sentence
   Flex helps developers manage the life-cycle of
   project dependencies by automating boring
   tasks,
   
   For projects of any size, from micro to monolith,
   
   For any kind of applications, API or Web.
   

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6. Flex in 10 seconds
   Projects do not depend on symfony/symfony
   
   No third-party dependencies/bundles
   
   Add dependencies when you need them
   
   Nothing to remove, the bare minimum
   

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7. Flex behind the scenes
   Composer plugin
   
   Uses “recipes” to install/uninstall any Composer
   package (enables bundles, auto-configures
   packages, …)
   

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8. Flex
   in action…
   

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9. $ composer create-project symfony/skeleton demo
   # Before Symfony 4 stable
   $ composer create-project -s beta symfony/
   skeleton demo
   

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10. symfony/skeleton
    "require": {
    "php": "^7.0.8",
    "symfony/console": "^4.0",
    "symfony/flex": "^1.0",
    "symfony/framework-bundle": "^4.0",
    "symfony/lts": "^4@dev",
    "symfony/yaml": "^4.0"
    },
    "require-dev": {
    "symfony/dotenv": "^4.0"
    },
    

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11. symfony/lts
    Enforces Long Term Supported versions of the
    Symfony Components
    

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12. $ composer create-project symfony/skeleton demo
    Demo
    

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13. $ composer create-project symfony/skeleton demo
    Demo
    

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14. $ composer create-project symfony/skeleton demo
    Demo
    

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15. $ composer create-project symfony/skeleton demo
    Demo
    

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16. $ tree -I vendor
    $ find . -type f | wc -l
    Symfony 4 is lightweight
    Only 13 files
    vs 31 SE
    2503 total
    vs 8867 SE
    -70%
    

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17. New directory structure
    • Less depth, easier to navigate
    • Non-PHP files in their own directories (assets/,
    templates/)
    • Decoupled from Symfony (assets/, src/,
    templates/, public/)
    

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18. https://github.com/symfony/recipes/
    symfony/framework-bundle/3.3
    Demo
    

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19. symfony.lock
    

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20. Recipes repositories
    https://github.com/symfony/recipes
    
    Curated recipes by Symfony core team
    
    https://github.com/symfony/recipes-contrib
    
    Open to all contributions
    150+ recipes
    

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21. Symfony Bot
    Validates contributions
    

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22. Symfony Bot
    Let’s you test a recipe
    
    before merging
    

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23. Symfony Bot
    Auto-merge pull requests
    

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24. $ composer show | wc -l
    Demo
    Only 21 deps
    vs 38 + 50 = 88 SE
    

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25. Symfony Standard Edition
    Monolog Bundle
    SwiftMailer Bundle
    Polyfill Util
    Polyfill PHP 7.0
    Polyfill PHP 5.6
    Polyfill Mbstring
    Polyfill Intl ICU
    Polyfill APCu
    PHPUnit Bridge
    Debug Bundle
    Framework Bundle
    Security Bundle
    Twig Bundle
    WebProfiler Bundle
    WebServer Bundle
    Doctrine Bridge
    Monolog Bridge
    Twig Bridge
    Monolog
    Doctrine (11)
    SecurityChecker
    Generator Bundle
    ParamHandler
    FrameworkExtra
    Bundle
    Distribution Bundle
    Asset
    BrowserKit
    Cache
    ClassLoader
    Config
    Console
    CssSelector
    Debug
    DependencyInjection
    DomCrawler
    Dotenv
    EventDispatcher
    ExpressionLanguage
    Filesystem
    Finder
    Form
    HttpFoundation
    HttpKernel
    Inflector
    Intl
    Ldap
    OptionsResolver
    Process
    PropertyAccess
    PropertyInfo
    Routing
    Security
    Serializer
    Stopwatch
    Templating
    Translation
    Validator
    VarDumper
    WebLink
    Workflow
    Yaml
    4 bridges
    15 librairies
    11 bundles
    42 components
    SwiftMailer
    

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26. Symfony Flex / Symfony 4.0
    Polyfill Mbstring
    Framework Bundle
    Cache
    Config
    Debug
    DependencyInjection
    Dotenv
    EventDispatcher
    Filesystem
    Finder
    HttpFoundation
    HttpKernel
    Routing
    Yaml
    0 bridges
    1 library
    1 bundle
    13 components
    Flex
    

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27. Demo
    

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28. $ ./bin/console
    Demo
    13 commands
    vs 57 SE
    

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29. $ git init
    $ git add .
    $ git commit -m"init"
    Demo
    

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30. $ composer req maker:dev-master
    Demo
    

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31. Aliases
    • Shortcuts for common packages (log, behat,
    phpunit, …)
    • Optimized for Symfony Components (no need
    to use the symfony/ prefix, just workflow, dom-crawler, …)
    • Opinionated choices (admin, api, orm, mailer, …)
    

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32. Packs
    • Bundle several dependencies into a
    consistent set (debug, profiler, api, …)
    $ composer req debug
    

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33. Discover Aliases and Packs
    https://symfony.sh/
    

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34. Flex private repositories
    

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35. $ composer config extra.symfony.id
    Register
    Flex private repositories
    

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36. $ composer req maker:dev-master
    $ git diff config/bundles.php
    Symfony Maker Bundle
    

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37. $ ./bin/console list make
    Symfony Maker Bundle
    

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38. $ ./bin/console make:controller
    Symfony Maker Bundle
    

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39. $ composer req annot
    Symfony Maker Bundle
    

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40. $ ./bin/console make:controller DefaultController
    Symfony Maker Bundle
    

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41. $ vim config/routes.yaml
    Symfony Maker Bundle
    

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42. $ vim src/Controller/DefaultController.php
    Symfony Maker Bundle
    src/ is bundle-less
    

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43. Application code is no
    longer divided into bundles.
    

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44. Symfony 4 helps you

    grow your app

    with ease
    

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45. $ composer req twig
    Adding Twig
    

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46. Never define

    your service again*
    

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47. Adding a Twig Extension
    Where do I store
    the Twig extension
    class?
    Which file do I
    need to change to
    register it?
    Which tag do I need
    to use?
    How do I declare a
    tag in YAML?
    Which interface/class
    do I need to implement/
    extend? It’s too complex. What
    about doing it the dirty
    way and do it in the
    controller instead?
    hmm, ok
    

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48. $ ./bin/console make:twig-extension
    Adding a Twig Extension
    Add your logic in the
    generated class…
    DONE!
    

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49. Full Automation works for…
    • Twig extensions
    • Event listeners
    • Doctrine repositories
    • Commands
    • Voters
    • …
    

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50. Beyond “Hello World”
    • Defining some models via Doctrine
    • Adding an API for my model
    • Managing data with an admin
    

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51. $ composer req orm admin api
    Full stack really quick
    

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52. $ ./bin/console make:entity Product
    $ vim config/packages/easy_admin.yaml
    Full stack really quick
    

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53. $ vim .env
    DATABASE_URL="sqlite:///%kernel.project_dir%/var/
    data.db"
    $ ./bin/console doctrine:database:create
    $ ./bin/console doctrine:schema:update --force
    Full stack really quick
    

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54. DSNs
    parameters:
    database_host: 127.0.0.1
    database_port: null
    database_name: symfony
    database_user: root
    database_password: null
    Symfony 2/3
    Symfony 4
    DATABASE_URL = "mysql://root@127.0.0.1:3306/symfony"
    MAILER_URL
    REDIS_URL
    …
    

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55. It works!
    One line config change
    One annotation added
    

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57. Symfony 4 with Flex recap
    • Auto-configuration for any Composer package
    • A new Maker bundle to simplify creating files
    • Support for Flex private repositories
    • No more boilerplate code, just business logic
    • Controllers and commands are services now
    • From micro to monolith
    • Meta-packages doing a lot for you out of the box
    Productivity
    boost!
    Better DX
    

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58. More with Symfony 4
    • Dependency injection without thinking about it
    • API Platform, the most advanced API system
    • Admin, simple and powerful
    • Symfony Encore, makes working with Webpack
    enjoyable
    Talk at
    Cluj!
    Talk at
    Cluj!
    Talk at
    Cluj!
    

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59. More with Symfony 4
    HTTP2
    push
    support Inject secrets
    as parameters
    (Docker/K8s)
    Built-in PSR-3
    logger
    Env vars
    where it makes
    sense
    DI simplified,
    classes as IDs
    PSR-11,
    PSR-6, PSR-16
    out of the box
    Private
    services by
    default
    

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60. Env/Debug mode
    // web/app_dev.php
    $kernel = new AppKernel('dev', true);
    $request = Request::createFromGlobals();
    // ...
    // web/app.php
    $kernel = new AppKernel('prod', false);
    $request = Request::createFromGlobals();
    // ...
    Symfony 2/3 Symfony 4
    # .env
    APP_ENV = dev
    APP_DEBUG = 1
    Enables the merge of

    app.php and app_dev.php
    to a single index.php
    

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61. … which simplifies running commands
    # Symfony 2/3
    $ ./bin/console foo:bar --env=prod —no-debug
    $ SYMFONY_ENV=prod SYMFONY_DEBUG=0 ./bin/console
    foo:bar
    # Symfony 4
    $ ./bin/console foo:bar
    

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62. Deprecating

    the obsolete
    

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63. Long READMEs

    are a thing of the past
    WITHOUT
    Flex
    WITH
    Flex
    

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64. Symfony Standard Edition
    • Not available for Symfony 4
    • But still maintained for Symfony 2.7 -> 3.4
    • EOL November 2020
    Use Flex
    

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65. Symfony Installer
    • Not available for Symfony 4
    • But still maintained for Symfony 2.7 -> 3.4
    • EOL November 2020 Use plain
    Composer
    and Flex
    

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66. symfony/symfony as a dep
    • Won’t be enforced
    • But strongly not recommended
    • Won’t be removed as still the best way to
    manage the project
    Use explicit
    dependencies
    

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67. Silex
    • New Symfony features not supported
    • EOL June 2018
    Use Flex
    

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68. symfony 1
    • Last major release 7 years ago
    • End of life 5 years ago
    • End of infrastructure: December 2017
    Use Symfony
    2/3/4
    

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69. No longer recommended
    • Symfony Standard Edition (EOL nov 2020)
    • Symfony Installer (EOL nov 2020)
    • symfony/symfony as a Composer dep (EOL nov 2020)
    • Silex (EOL june 2018)
    • symfony 1 (EOL dec 2017)
    

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70. https://symfony.com/4
    

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71. What’s next?
    

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72. needs you
    

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73. 5 initiatives to grow
    Led by the
    community
    Supported by the
    Core Team
    And SensioLabs
    

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74. 5 new initiatives
    … to grow the community
    

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75. Upgrade to 4
    … all Symfony bundles and the ecosystem
    

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76. Recipes Team
    … to review, approve, and merge contributions
    

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77. Security Team
    … to manage the whole process
    

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78. Interested?
    fabien@symfony.com
    

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79. Integrations
    … to provide higher-level integrations
    

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80. Current “integrations”, small and big
    • Monolog
    • Gmail support in semantic configuration
    • Assetic / Encore
    • Bootstrap 3 / 4
    

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81. Some “random” ideas
    • Search engine: Algolia, ElasticSearch
    • Multi-factor authentication (Google Authenticator) / SAML
    • Structured logs
    • VueJS
    • Queues / Workers
    • Transactional email providers (Mailgun, Postmark, …)
    • Payment gateways (Stripe)
    • …
    

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82. Diversity
    …scholarship, mentorship, …
    

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83. Thank you!
    

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