The Art Of Plugin Development

A presentation about plugin development in Craft CMS given at the DotAll conference in 2018.

Transcript

1. The Art Of Plugin Development Ben Croker @ben_pylo PutYourLightsOn
4. Personal Home Page Tools
6. 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.
7. PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
8. “ElePHPant”
10. 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
11. Open source, object-oriented, web application framework.
12. Application Management Content Framework Driven Platform System Module Plugin Web Data Plugin Module 2
13. The Reality “That’s not a bug, that’s a feature.” Features Testing Updates Bug Reports Troubleshooting Documentation
14. Writing New Code Modifying Existing Code Understanding Code Source: “What Do Programmers Really Do Anyway?” by Peter Hallam
15. Understanding Code
16. There is no such thing as beautiful code.
17. User Experience Driven Development The biggest challenge is understanding the problem that you are trying to solve.
20. Possibility vs Feasibility A plugin should do one thing and do it well.
21. Warp Time Don’t get distracted by the noise.
22. Refactoring Restructuring your code for readability and reusability without changing its external behaviour. Technical Debt Maintainability Readability Reusability Complexity Bloat
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24. Documentation
28. Specialisation
29. do the demo
30. Craft 3 plugin development videos have landed. Available today.
31. In conclusion...
32. Thank You Ben Croker @ben_pylo PutYourLightsOn
33. 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!