Local development improvements

Talk given at https://2020.stripecon.eu

TwistedBytes' vagrant box: www.derkbox.com

Transcript

1. Local development
   improvements
   TwistedBytes’ Vagrant Box
   &
   PHPStorm Tips and Tricks
   

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2. Who am I?
   ● Werner M. Krauß
   ● Living in Bad Ischl, Austria
   ● wmk on slack
   ● PHP since 1998
   ● Freelancer since 2006 (netwerkstatt)
   ● Silverstripe since 2009 (V 2.3)
   ● Creator of www.silverstrip.es
   

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3. What’s this talk about?
   ● My development setup
   ○ PHPStorm
   ○ Vagrant
   ○ Derk’s TwistedBytes Vagrant box
   ● Cool settings to ease the daily development tasks
   ● Tips and tricks
   

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4. Vagrant
   

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5. Pros and Cons
   + easy set up virtual machine for
   local development
   + same development environment
   for the whole team
   + many ways to configure it
   + preconfigured boxes with huge
   functionalities
   - slow shared folder on windows
   - upgrading the box destroys it’s
   database
   

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6. What do we need?
   ● PHPStorm / Intellij Idea
   ● VirtualBox and Vagrant
   ● Hostmanager plugin for nice local URLs
   ● TwistedBytes’ webserver box aka DerkBox(box templates)
   

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7. PHPStorm Vagrant tools
   ● The IDE can control and communicate with the VM
   ● Shortcuts for starting, stopping, suspending, resuming,
   reloading and destroying the VM
   ● can easily connect to the VM and configure paths, PHP
   interpreter, composer, PHPUnit etc...
   

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8. The Box
   

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9. Eat fresh: only the best ingredients
   ● Apache with PHP 5.6, 7.0, …, 7.4, 8.0-beta
   ● MariaDB, PostgreSQL
   ● PhpMyAdmin
   ● Mailcatcher
   ● redis
   ● sspak
   

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10. Configure box via Vagrantfile
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11. Box Configuration
    ● a bunch of config files in
    different directories
    ● configure webserver root and https
    ● install additional packages
    ● Switch PHP versions on the fly
    ● Switch xdebug on and off
    ● import/export databases
    ● folder for PHPMyAdmin’s database
    imports
    

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12. PMA: PhpMyAdmin
    ● available under “/pma”
    ● Import dumps from “vagrant/pma_upload”
    

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13. Built in DB import & export
    ● can be triggered from
    vagrant/private/
    mysqldump-trigger.conf
    and mysqlload-trigger.conf
    ● saves and loads dumps in own
    folder
    

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14. Still not enough?
    ● add your own binaries to
    vagrant/private/bin
    

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15. The IDE
    

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16. Configuring PHPStorm
    ● Add box as remote PHP interpreter
    ● Setup Composer
    ● Xdebug & PHPUnit path mapping
    

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17. Composer
    ● manage packages on the box
    ● Installs via remote interpreter on the box
    ● no need to match the local PHP version
    ● caveat: github token for composer might be needed
    

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18. Xdebug
    ● Cannot live without it
    ● Easy mapping with PHPStorm
    ● Slows down PHP Interpreter
    ● Can be switched off in the box if not needed
    (e.g. for frontend work)
    

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19. PHPUnit
    ● Run tests remotely from your IDE
    ● nice output
    ● one click to the source of errors
    ● possibility to debug unit tests
    

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20. remote tools
    run commands on the vagrant box with one click
    ● flush caches
    ○ use “silverstripe-cache” folder in project root
    ● vendor expose
    ● dev/build
    ● sake
    

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21. Advanced
    Change xdebug settings for
    ngrok
    ● php.ini changes can be
    done in
    vagrant/config/
    php-fpm-pool.conf
    

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22. Thank you
    www.silverstrip.es
    www.netwerkstatt.at
    

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