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Hey, I’m Thomas – Co-founder & CEO of Sulu GmbH – More than 15 years of experience in web technologies & development – PHP, Symfony, React, SQL, Elasticsearch, … – Open source enthusiast – Loves cooking and mountains @chirimoya [email protected] https://github.com/chirimoya

Who knows Sulu?

Sulu CMS – Content Management Platform – Full-Stack Symfony – Made for businesses – Simple UI – High Performance – 100% Open Source

For business – Built with the needs of business and industry in mind – Enterprise features without ridiculous license fees – Supports multi-language, multi-portal and multi-channel – Easy to integrate data from external resources – Perfect for developing any type of business app

For editors – Really simple and very fast user interface – Web-based, no installation required – Edit forms that validate content & ensure correct semantics – Live preview content as you type it – Switch between different devices (Smartphone, Tablet or Desktop)

For developers – Full-Stack Symfony environment – Semantic configuration of templates – Easy transition from data to HTML – Build applications around content management – Add/Remove functionality with Symfony Bundles

Bicycles Everyone can ride them, many can repair it
 (WordPress etc.) Cars Many can ride them, some can repair it
 (Drupal, TYPO3 etc.) Supertanker Need highly specialized staff, expensive and very complex
 (Hybris, OpenText, Adobe Experience Manager etc.) Trucks Need a special license, must be configured to your needs (eZ Publish, Pimcore etc.) Where we see us …

When to use Sulu? – Complex brand and corporate presences – News and media platforms – Social and collaborative sites – E-Business projects – Handling external data resources – Where speed is a critical success factor

When not to use Sulu? – Sulu is not WordPress – We don’t recommend to use Sulu for: – Low budget marketing sites – Simple blogs – Hobby websites – Small business websites

Bring your own business logic What does that mean?

Bring your own business logic – Business websites are evolving into rich software applications, requiring ... – comprehensive integration – business logic – data management capabilities

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One User Interface for all data management tasks? Less switching between different applications.

Maybe the Sulu administration interface could be the ONE? We build beautiful UIs with a great UX.

PHPCR DOCTRINE MySQL, PostgreSQL, Jackrabbit, ... Framework Symfony Symfony CMF Contact Media Content ... Sulu

REST API Single-Page Application Your Application Website Admin Symfony Symfony CMF Contact Media Content ... Sulu

REST API Single-Page Application Your Application Website Admin Symfony Symfony CMF Contact Media Content ... Sulu

Single-Page Application – Fast and responsive UI – Improved user experience – Only data is transmitted – Caching capabilities – Clean separation – REST API

Single-Page Application – Don't break the internet – Deep linking might be hard – Keep an eye on security (XSS) – On-the-fly extensibility is difficult – back-end developer != front-end developer

“ Navigating the hype-driven frontend development world without going insane. Kitze

Sulu 1.* Front-End Technologies

New major release ahead! Let's break some stuff ;-)

Sulu 2.0 Front-End Technologies

Making the front-end as extensible as the back-end. Without the need to write JavaScript!

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Metadata for JavaScript views - List & Form – Determines all the available fields for lists and forms – Contains a data-type to know how to represent this field – Contains a title to display above fields – Form can contain more parameters to customize fields

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events App\Entity\EventTranslation App\Entity\Event.translations App\Entity\EventTranslation.locale = :locale ... id App\Entity\Event title App\Entity\EventTranslation

event_details sulu_admin.title app.location app.teaser

REST API – The way data is transferred between backend and frontend – Identified by a resourceKey to combine list and detail requests – API has to follow a standard – Helper for list representations

// src/Admin/DoctrineListRepresentationFactory.php class DoctrineListRepresentationFactory { ... public function createDoctrineListRepresentation( string $resourceKey, array $filters = [], array $parameters = [] ): PaginatedRepresentation { $fieldDescriptors = $this->fieldDescriptorFactory->getFieldDescriptors($resourceKey); $listBuilder = $this->listBuilderFactory->create($fieldDescriptors['id']->getEntityName()); $this->restHelper->initializeListBuilder($listBuilder, $fieldDescriptors); ... return new PaginatedRepresentation( $list, $resourceKey, (int) $listBuilder->getCurrentPage(), (int) $listBuilder->getLimit(), (int) $listBuilder->count() ); }

# config/packages/sulu_admin.yaml sulu_admin: email: "%env(SULU_ADMIN_EMAIL)%" forms: directories: - "%kernel.project_dir%/config/forms" lists: directories: - "%kernel.project_dir%/config/lists" resources: events: routes: list: app.get_events detail: app.get_event field_type_options: selection: event_selection: default_type: list_overlay resource_key: events types: list_overlay: adapter: table list_key: events

Sulu Admin Class – Tagged Symfony service to extend the admin application of Sulu – Allows configuration of views and navigation items – Introduces security contexts – Add settings to configuration request

// src/Admin/EventAdmin.php class EventAdmin extends Admin { ... public function configureViews(ViewCollection $viewCollection): void { $locales = $this->webspaceManager->getAllLocales(); $listToolbarActions = [ new ToolbarAction('sulu_admin.add'), new ToolbarAction('sulu_admin.delete') ]; $listView = $this->viewBuilderFactory ->createListViewBuilder(self::EVENT_LIST_VIEW, '/events/:locale') ->setResourceKey(Event::RESOURCE_KEY) ->setListKey(self::EVENT_LIST_KEY) ->setTitle('app.events') ->addListAdapters(['table']) ->addLocales($locales) ->setDefaultLocale($locales[0]) ->setAddView(static::EVENT_ADD_FORM_VIEW) ->setEditView(static::EVENT_EDIT_FORM_VIEW) ->addToolbarActions($listToolbarActions); $viewCollection->add($listView);

// src/Admin/EventAdmin.php class EventAdmin extends Admin { ... public function configureNavigationItems(NavigationItemCollection $navigationItemCollection): void { // Configure a NavigationItem without a Route $module = new NavigationItem('app.events'); $module->setPosition(40); $module->setIcon('fa-calendar'); // Configure a NavigationItem with a Route $events = new NavigationItem('app.events'); $events->setPosition(10); $events->setMainRoute(static::EVENT_LIST_ROUTE); $module->addChild($events); $navigationItemCollection->add($module); } ...

Abstract field types – Almost every entity should have a selection for form assignments – Sulu includes an abstract `selection` and `single_selection` field type – This abstract field type can be configured by options such as resourceKey

# config/packages/sulu_admin.yaml sulu_admin: email: "%env(SULU_ADMIN_EMAIL)%" forms: directories: - "%kernel.project_dir%/config/forms" lists: directories: - "%kernel.project_dir%/config/lists" resources: events: routes: list: app.get_events detail: app.get_event field_type_options: selection: event_selection: default_type: list_overlay resource_key: events types: list_overlay: adapter: table list_key: events

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Bring your own JavaScript. When you need more than Sulu provides out of the box.

Registries … FTW! – Lot of registries to hook into different places – Includes e.g. separate views, toolbar actions, form fields, … – React and JavaScript knowledge required to write them

Sulu 2.0 Facts and Figures

Sulu 2.0 Facts and Figures – Release date: 02.10.2019 – 2,5 years - 7.600+ hours – ~720 pull requests – ~268.000 lines of code added – ~396.000 lines of code removed

Sulu is more than just a CMS Give it a try.

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