How PrestaShop started the migration to Symfony

My small talk for the Symfony Catalunya 2016 event where I've showed how PrestaShop started the migration to Symfony with some easy steps.

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1. Symfony Catalunya 2016 How PrestaShop started the migration to Symfony Symfony Catalunya 2016
2. Symfony Catalunya 2016 How PrestaShop started the migration to Symfony Symfony Catalunya 2016
3. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Overview of PrestaShop
4. Symfony Catalunya 2016 What is PrestaShop?
5. Symfony Catalunya 2016 What is PrestaShop? • Open source e-commerce solution
6. Symfony Catalunya 2016 What is PrestaShop? • Open source e-commerce solution • Project started in 2007
7. Symfony Catalunya 2016 What is PrestaShop? • Open source e-commerce solution • Project started in 2007 • Used by 250,000 shops worldwide
8. Symfony Catalunya 2016 What is PrestaShop? • Open source e-commerce solution • Project started in 2007 • Used by 250,000 shops worldwide • Available in 60 different languages
9. Symfony Catalunya 2016 What is PrestaShop? • Open source e-commerce solution • Project started in 2007 • Used by 250,000 shops worldwide • Available in 60 different languages • More than 600 features by default
10. Symfony Catalunya 2016 What is PrestaShop? • Open source e-commerce solution • Project started in 2007 • Used by 250,000 shops worldwide • Available in 60 different languages • More than 600 features by default • 3,500 modules available on the marketplace
11. Symfony Catalunya 2016 What is PrestaShop? • Open source e-commerce solution • Project started in 2007 • Used by 250,000 shops worldwide • Available in 60 different languages • More than 600 features by default • 3,500 modules available on the marketplace • 2,000 themes
12. Symfony Catalunya 2016 What is PrestaShop? • 40,000 lines of code for templates
13. Symfony Catalunya 2016 What is PrestaShop? • 40,000 lines of code for templates • 30,000 lines of code for javascript
14. Symfony Catalunya 2016 What is PrestaShop? • 40,000 lines of code for templates • 30,000 lines of code for javascript • 230,000 lines of code for PHP
15. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Why did we migrate to Symfony?
16. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Why did we migrate to Symfony? • Maintaining our framework costs time
17. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Why did we migrate to Symfony? • Maintaining our framework costs time • This is not our job!
18. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Why did we migrate to Symfony? • Maintaining our framework costs time • This is not our job! • We must focus on the e-commerce
19. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Why did we migrate to Symfony? • Maintaining our framework costs time • This is not our job! • We must focus on the e-commerce • The reputation & the community
20. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Why did we migrate to Symfony?
21. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Why did we migrate to Symfony? Why not a PrestaShop v2?
22. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Why did we migrate to Symfony? Why not a PrestaShop v2? • Re-creating the 600 features will take too much time
23. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Why did we migrate to Symfony? Why not a PrestaShop v2? • Re-creating the 600 features will take too much time • We don’t want to break themes & modules compatibility
24. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Why did we migrate to Symfony? Why not a PrestaShop v2? • Re-creating the 600 features will take too much time • We don’t want to break themes & modules compatibility • We cannot stop our business for years!
25. Symfony Catalunya 2016 The migration!
26. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Step #1 Allow Symfony to handle the requests
27. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Allow Symfony to handle the requests
28. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Allow Symfony to handle the requests
29. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Allow Symfony to handle the requests
30. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Allow Symfony to handle the requests From the Symfony API documentation:
31. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Allow Symfony to handle the requests
32. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Allow Symfony to handle the requests
33. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Step #2 Learn the Adapter design pattern
34. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Learn the Adapter design pattern What is an Adapter?
35. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Learn the Adapter design pattern What is an Adapter? The adapter pattern allows the interface of an existing class to be used as another interface.
36. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Learn the Adapter design pattern Price ________________ +getProductPrice() Legacy sources Product ________________ +getBasePrice()
37. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Learn the Adapter design pattern Product ________________ +getPrice() Symfony AppBundle Price ________________ +getProductPrice() Legacy sources Product ________________ +getBasePrice()
38. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Learn the Adapter design pattern Product ________________ +getPrice() Symfony AppBundle Price ________________ +getProductPrice() Legacy sources Product ________________ +getBasePrice() ProductAdapter ________________ +getPrice() Adapters
39. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Learn the Adapter design pattern Product ________________ +getPrice() Symfony AppBundle Price ________________ +getProductPrice() Legacy sources Product ________________ +getBasePrice() ProductAdapter ________________ +getPrice() Adapters
40. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Learn the Adapter design pattern Product ________________ +getPrice() Symfony AppBundle Price ________________ +getProductPrice() Legacy sources Product ________________ +getBasePrice() ProductAdapter ________________ +getPrice() Adapters
41. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Learn the Adapter design pattern
42. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Learn the Adapter design pattern
43. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Step #3 Overriding a service with an adapter
44. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Overriding a service with an adapter • Custom translation system
45. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Overriding a service with an adapter • Custom translation system • Start to use the Symfony Translator …
46. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Overriding a service with an adapter • Custom translation system • Start to use the Symfony Translator … • … to remove the old one
47. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Overriding a service with an adapter Legacy sources Adapters Symfony AppBundle Extends Use
48. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Overriding a service with an adapter Legacy sources Adapters Symfony AppBundle Extends Use Register services
49. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Overriding a service with an adapter
50. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Overriding a service with an adapter
51. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Overriding a service with an adapter
52. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Overriding a service with an adapter
53. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Overriding a service with an adapter
54. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Overriding a service with an adapter
55. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Step #4 Understand the 3 steps architecture
56. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Understand the 3 steps architecture
57. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Understand the 3 steps architecture Symfony AppBundle
58. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Understand the 3 steps architecture Legacy sources Symfony AppBundle
59. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Understand the 3 steps architecture Legacy sources Symfony AppBundle Adapters
60. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Understand the 3 steps architecture Legacy sources Symfony AppBundle Will be removed Adapters
61. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Understand the 3 steps architecture Legacy sources Symfony AppBundle Will be removed Use The legacy sources and the adapters can use and be dependent of any sources. Use Use Adapters
62. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Understand the 3 steps architecture Legacy sources Symfony AppBundle Will be removed Extends Register Services The symfony sources will never directly use an adapter or a legacy source. Use The legacy sources and the adapters can use and be dependent of any sources. Use Use Adapters
63. Symfony Catalunya 2016 There is still much to do!
64. Symfony Catalunya 2016 There is still much to do! • From your template engine to Twig
65. Symfony Catalunya 2016 There is still much to do! • From your template engine to Twig • Unit testing!!!
66. Symfony Catalunya 2016 There is still much to do! • From your template engine to Twig • Unit testing!!! • Double database writing
67. Symfony Catalunya 2016 There is still much to do! • From your template engine to Twig • Unit testing!!! • Double database writing • Rethink your processes
68. Symfony Catalunya 2016 There is still much to do! • From your template engine to Twig • Unit testing!!! • Double database writing • Rethink your processes • Why not an API?
69. Symfony Catalunya 2016 Julien Martin @shudrum Shudrum We’re Hiring! julien.martin@prestashop.com