Symfony Grows Up: The Developer Experience Initiative

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by your friend: ! Ryan Weaver @weaverryan Symfony Grows Up: The Developer Experience

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KnpUniversity.com github.com/weaverryan Who is this Hipster? > Lead for the Symfony documentation  > KnpLabs US - Symfony Consulting, training, Kumbaya ! > Writer for KnpUniversity.com Tutorials > Husband of the much more talented @leannapelham

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Ephemeralization* @weaverryan

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* shamelessly “borrowed” from David Zuelke http://bit.ly/dzuelke-ephem

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R. Buckminster Fuller

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do more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing “

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Think of Measuring Distance Tools let us measure further, and with less eﬀort by the human measuring

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https://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/chandramarsono/4324373384

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https://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/krawcowicz/4153762400

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limited by site https://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/40132991@N07/3715292940

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https://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/avlxyz/4999120709

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Easiest scaling ever Simplest Deployment Process @weaverryan The complexity is hidden. The visible pieces are simple.

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Do More, With Less

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Less is not about size

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Less …  ! …eﬀort  …drain on my patience ! …drain on my energy ! …design on this slide

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Accomplish more SnapChat, but with less time, energy and barriers

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UX @weaverryan

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Do More, With Less

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Less is not (necessarily) about code written

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Less… ! ! …Dev Time ! …Learning Curve ! …Complexity

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Build BIGGER and more interesting applications, but with less time, less eﬀort and less barriers

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DX @weaverryan

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Complexity: Consisting of many diﬀerent and connected parts

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Simple vs Easy @weaverryan

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Simple Easily Understood

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Easy Achieved without great eﬀort

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Losing Weight @weaverryan Simple: Eat well and exercise ! Not Easy: Waking up at 6am every morning to run!

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Drupal’s Hook system @weaverryan Not Simple: I don’t know what’s going on or how it works ! Easy: Just create a function!

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Installing a Bundle @weaverryan Installing a bundle may be easy because the documentation was simple (i.e. direct, clear, uncluttered)

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@weaverryan Symfony is simple: define a URL, create a function, return a Response

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@weaverryan Symfony aims to be simple and clear above all else Once something is simple, you can make it easy (but not in reverse - that’s “magic”

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Developer Experience Initiative @weaverryan

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2.0-2.5

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Loooong Names src/MyCompany/ContentBundle/Controller/ ContentAdminController.php use SymfonyLive\FabienBundle\Entity \Product $this- >render('SymfonyLiveFabienBundle:Product:new.html.twig')

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Many Files app/config/routing.yml src/SymfonyLive/FabienBundle/config/routing.yml src/SymfonyLive/FabienBundle/Controller/ BestPracticesController.php src/SymfonyLive/FabienBundle/Service/BestPracticeanator.php app/config/config.yml src/SymfonyLive/FabienBundle/config/services.yml src/SymfonyLive/FabienBundle/Resources/views/BestPractices/ index.html.twig

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Scattered Files app/config/routing.yml src/SymfonyLive/FabienBundle/config/routing.yml src/SymfonyLive/JMikolaBundle/config/routing.yml src/SymfonyLive/HHamonBundle/config/routing.yml app/Resources/views/base.html.twig src/SymfonyLive/FabienBundle/Resources/views/BestPractices/ index.html.twig src/SymfonyLive/JMikolaBundle/Resources/views/Wurst/sausage.html.twig src/SymfonyLive/HHamonBundle/Resources/views/HowToTravel/ inStyle.html.twig web/assets/css/layout.css web/bundles/symfonylivefabien/css/merging.css web/bundles/symfonylivejmikola/css/wurst.css web/bundles/hhamon/js/JetLagSuperSuperman.js

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Bad Bundle README’s ! :( @weaverryan

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Pre-DX VichUploaderBundle docs

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The DX initiative asks…

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How could this problem have been solved in a simpler way? “

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How could we do this new thing, with less code, less eﬀort and less barriers “

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The DX Initiative Process @weaverryan

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You say: “this kinda sucks” One @weaverryan

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We (all) work to ﬁx it Two @weaverryan

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Hi! I can improve that for you!

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Celebrate! Three

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Repeat Four @weaverryan

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not done yet…

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Stay Strong!

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New composer require behavior

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New Installation! (not yet merged)

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File structure before best practices

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File structure after best practices

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Up Next for DX @weaverryan

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0) Symfony @weaverryan

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1) Community Bundles @weaverryan

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2) Blogs and Documentation for the most common problems @weaverryan

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You drive DX… * So open issues on any repository with a [DX] at the beginning of the title

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…and move us towards Ephemeralization @weaverryan

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… so we can accomplish so much more with less @weaverryan

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Thanks! Ryan Weaver @weaverryan KnpUniversity.com PHP , Behat, Twig, OO, etc Tutorial Screencasts