Drupal 10 from the pov of a Symfony 6 core-contributor

While Drupal 8 & 9 rely on Symfony 3.4 & 4.4 respectively, Drupal 10 is going to be based on Symfony 6.2. That's a nice a leap forward that will allow Drupalers to catch up on almost 3 years of innovation on Symfony's side \o/

In this presentation, we'll review the new features coming to core from Symfony that you could take advantage of. Think about more expressive/automated ways to do dependency-injection, using PHP 8 attributes to configure all-the-things, translation providers, safer sub-processes, etc.

So much new power-tools at your disposal that just wait to be learned about!

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1. @nicolasgrekas #DrupalConPrague
   Drupal 10 from the pov of
   a Symfony 6 core-contributor
   Nicolas Grekas
   

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2. @nicolasgrekas
   General Manager at Symfony Corp.
   Core-team member since 2014
   ~3000 PRs sent to symfony/symfony
   

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3. Symfony
   TL;DR
   

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4. Symfony OSS
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   Open Source Software since 2011 (v2)
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   Built for the web, built in PHP
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   The top-most used PHP components
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   The second top-most used PHP framework
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   3 000 contributors
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   ~60 core components, ~200 packages
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   14B cumulated downloads
   

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5. Designed for cheap upgrades
   Within the same major:
   The Backward Compatibility Promise
   Across major versions:
   The Continuous Upgrade Path
   TL;DR
   composer up symfony/* every 1 month
   Upgrade to the next “minor” every 6 months
   (in June and December) and fix deprecations
   Roadmap
   

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6. 1.
   Any planned break MUST issue
   a deprecation notice
   2.
   Deprecating and upgrading
   must be done in the same PR
   3.
   You should be able to upgrade
   Symfony XOR php
   Continuous Upgrade Path
   

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7. •
   Core-Team
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   Security Policy
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   Welcoming Spaces
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   CARE Team
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   Friendly CI
   Community Principles
   

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8. Cutting Edge Practices
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   v4.4 : Support for PHP 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2(!) deprecation-less
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   v5.4 : Support new features of the language (attributes, enums)
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   v6.0 : Drop deprecated code
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   v6.1 : Use modern-style syntax
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   v6.1 : Better type declarations with native and generic types
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   v6.2 : Still WIP - More attributes
   Last 12 months
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   +8000 files modified -- +470/-430k files
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   +2000 PRs - 6/day
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   400 features -- 700 bugs -- +900(!) minors
   

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9. https://dri.es/
   

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10. Drupal 10
    From Symfony 4.4 to 6.2
    

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11. Drupal 10 Core
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    Console
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    DependencyInjection
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    EventDispatcher
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    HttpFoundation
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    HttpKernel
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    Mime
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    Process
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    Routing
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    Serializer
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    String
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    Validator
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    VarExporter
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    VarDumper
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    Yaml
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    Twig
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    Cache
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    Clock
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    Dotenv
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    ErrorHandler
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    HttpClient
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    HtmlSanitizer
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    Mailer
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    Messenger
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    Notifier
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    Uid
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    Workflow
    

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12. PHP >= 8.1
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    Native return types
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    (nested) Attributes
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    Enums
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    Serializable
    

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13. Symfony String
    Object-oriented abstraction to deal with binary and Unicode strings
    u('Symfony is great')->slice(0, 7); // 'Symfony'
    Slugger
    $slugger->slug('Wôrķšƥáçè sèťtïñğš '); // 'Workspace-settings-smiley-cat'
    Inflector
    $inflector->singularize('teeth'); // ['tooth']
    

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14. Symfony Process
    Arrays for single processes
    new Process(['ls', '-lsa', $path])
    Prepared command-lines when needing a shell
    $process = Process::fromShellCommandline('ls -lsa "${:path}" | grep foo');
    $process->run(null, ['path' => '/path/to/some/dir']);
    

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15. Symfony Routing
    #[Route(
    path: '/users/{id}',
    requirements: ['id' => Requirement::ULID]
    )]
    public const ULID = '[0-7][0-9A-HJKMNP-TV-Z]{25}';
    public const DIGITS = '[0-9]+';
    // ...
    # modules/custom/custom/coffee_shop/coffee_shop.routing.yml
    coffee_shop:
    resource: src/Controller/
    type: attribute
    

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16. Symfony HttpFoundation
    RFC 8674 - Avoid objectionable content, as defined by the origin server
    $request->preferSafeContent(); // Prefer: safe
    $response->setContentSafe(); // Preference-Applied: safe
    // Vary: Prefer
    

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17. Symfony HttpKernel
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    Replace KernelEvent::isMasterRequest() by isMainRequest()
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    Add argument $catchThrowable to HttpKernel::__construct()?
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    #[AsController] - needs RegisterControllerArgumentLocatorsPass
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    #[Cache] - needs CacheAttributeListener
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    Value resolvers for DateTime, BackedEnum and Uid
    

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18. Symfony DependencyInjection
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    #[Autowire('%foo%')]
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    #[TaggedIterator + TaggedLocator + AsTaggedItem]
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    #[AsDecorator + MapDecorated + .inner]
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    #[Target]
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    #[Required]
    

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19. Symfony DependencyInjection
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    #[Autoconfigure] and #[AutoconfigureTag]
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    Expressions as service factories
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    Native lazy-loading services
    

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20. Let’s run a barista
    

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21. Let’s run a barista
    

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22. Let’s run a barista
    

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23. Let’s run a barista
    

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24. Let’s run a barista
    

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25. Put *.services.yml on a diet
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    Enable auto-discovery – RIP providers
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    Enable auto-configuration – RIP tags/passes
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    Enable controllers as services – RIP Drupal::service()
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    Enable custom value resolvers – at least enable the new ones in core
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    Enable #[Autowire('%env(FOO)%')]
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    Enable #[Route]
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    (Don’t force lowercase service ids)
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    (Document how to auto-invalidate the container from CLI)
    

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26. Undergo change or be the change
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    Be creative
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    Grow your roots and standardize
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    Embrace deprecations
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    And delete code!
    

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27. Kudos!
    D+S=<3
    

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28. the general
    conference survey
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    the Individual
    session surveys
    (located under each session description)
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