The Art Of Plugin Development

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The Art Of Plugin Development Ben Croker @ben_pylo PutYourLightsOn

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Personal Home Page Tools

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CS101 Travelling Salesman Problem: Given a set of cities and distances between every pair of cities, find the shortest possible route that visits every city exactly once and returns back to the starting point.

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PHP Hypertext Preprocessor

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“ElePHPant”

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Percentages of websites using various server-side programming languages 20 % 40 % 60 % 80 % 100 % PHP ASP.NET Static Files Java Ruby ColdFusion JavaScript Perl Python 0.2 % 0.3 % 0.5 % 0.6 % 0.6 % 2.2 % 2.3 % 12.9 % 83.5 % Source: W3Techs.com, September 2018

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Open source, object-oriented, web application framework.

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Application Management Content Framework Driven Platform System Module Plugin Web Data Plugin Module 2

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The Reality “That’s not a bug, that’s a feature.” Features Testing Updates Bug Reports Troubleshooting Documentation

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Writing New Code Modifying Existing Code Understanding Code Source: “What Do Programmers Really Do Anyway?” by Peter Hallam

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Understanding Code

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There is no such thing as beautiful code.

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User Experience Driven Development The biggest challenge is understanding the problem that you are trying to solve.

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Possibility vs Feasibility A plugin should do one thing and do it well.

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Warp Time Don’t get distracted by the noise.

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Refactoring Restructuring your code for readability and reusability without changing its external behaviour. Technical Debt Maintainability Readability Reusability Complexity Bloat

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Documentation

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Specialisation

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do the demo

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Craft 3 plugin development videos have landed. Available today.

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In conclusion...

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Thank You Ben Croker @ben_pylo PutYourLightsOn

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Acknowledgements Pixel & Tonic – creators of Cra CMS JetBrains – makers of PhpStorm Alexander Makarov – core maintainer of Yii Ryan White – advice and guidance on presentation Ryan Irelan – training partner and founder of cra quest.io Simon Oberrauner – paragliding photos Vladimir Reznichenko – creator of Php Inspections and Yii2 Inspections Ondřej Mirtes – creator of PHPStan Philip Sharp – editor of aﬁeldguidetoelephpants.net Programming Wisdom (@CodeWisdom) – inspirational quotes The entire Cra CMS community for their endless support and willingness to help each other out!