How to better maintain your TYPO3 extensions

Slides of my talk about tools I recommend to use for maintaining a public TYPO3 extension (PHP project) at TYPO3 Developer Days 2018

Transcript

1. How to better maintain your
   (public) extensions
   Nicole Cordes, biz-design, TYPO3 Developer Days 2018
   

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2. LOW HANGING FRUITS
   

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3. Resource
    Example extension EXT:my_skeleton
    https://github.com/IchHabRecht/my_skeleton
   

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4. ENSURE COMPATIBILITY
   

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5. What
    Continuous Integration Service
   

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6. How
    Continuous Integration Service
    Basically some kind of task runner
    You push your code
    Your Git server triggers the CI service or server
    Your CI service or server builds and tests your code
   

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7. Examples
    Bamboo
    Gitlab CI
    Jenkins
    Travis CI
   

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8. Showcase
    Travis CI
    https://travis-ci.org
    Run PHP linter for multiple versions
    Extend the setup executing unit and functional tests
    Release new versions automatically to TER
   

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9. UNIFY CODE STYLE
   

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10. What
     Coding Standards Fixer
    

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11. How
     Software or service analyzing your PHP code
     Define your code styles
     Run the tool or trigger the service
     Possible triggers
     Own task in your CI build/test
     Service triggered by a Git push
    

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12. Examples
     PHP Coding Standards Fixer (PHP CS Fixer)
     PHP_CodeSniffer
     StyleCI
     Manual: PHPStorm
    

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13. Showcase
     StyleCI
     https://styleci.io
     Advantage: immediate result
     Offer a corresponding PHP CS Fixer configuration
     Configuration names are nearly identically
    

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14. INCREASE CODE QUALITY
    

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15. What
     Static Code Analyzer
    

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16. How
     Software analyzing your PHP code
     Own metrics to parse code and find problems
     Your code is not executed
     Gets split in an abstract tree of PHP Parser Statements
     Different defined checks are executed
    

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17. Examples
     PHP Mess Detector
     PHPStan
     Psalm
     SonarQube
    

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18. Showcase
     SonarQube
     https://about.sonarcloud.io
     Add basic configuration
     Integrate into Travis CI as own stage
    

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19. THANK YOU!
    

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20. Photograph Credits
     https://www.pexels.com/photo/grapes-vineyard-vine-purple-grapes-45209/
     https://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewfhart/8106189987/in/photostream/
     https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Ny_Nordisk_mode,_Catwalk.jpg
     https://www.pexels.com/photo/person-filling-up-the-daily-report-schedule-form-
    1001752/
     https://pixnio.com/de/sonstiges/code-programmierung-computer-technologie-funktion-
    befehl
     https://www.goodfreephotos.com/ukraine/odessa/city-architecture-in-odessa-
    ukraine.jpg.php
     https://www.pexels.com/photo/black-brick-destroy-hole-82178/
    

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