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Symfony Grows Up: The Developer Experience Ini...

weaverryan
October 10, 2014

Symfony Grows Up: The Developer Experience Initiative

The Symfony Developer Experience is all about reducing complexity (and perceived complexity) but keeping the same high-quality framework and best practices we love. In this talk, I'll show you what we've done together and where we're going next.

weaverryan

October 10, 2014
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  1. KnpUniversity.com github.com/weaverryan Who is this Hipster? > Lead for the

    Symfony documentation
 > KnpLabs US - Symfony Consulting, training, Kumbaya ! > Writer for KnpUniversity.com Tutorials > Husband of the much more talented @leannapelham
  2. do more and more with less and less until eventually

    you can do everything with nothing “
  3. Think of Measuring Distance Tools let us measure further, and

    with less effort by the human measuring
  4. Losing Weight @weaverryan Simple: Eat well and exercise ! Not

    Easy: Waking up at 6am every morning to run!
  5. Drupal’s Hook system @weaverryan Not Simple: I don’t know what’s

    going on or how it works ! Easy: Just create a function!
  6. Installing a Bundle @weaverryan Installing a bundle may be easy

    because the documentation was simple (i.e. direct, clear, uncluttered)
  7. @weaverryan Symfony aims to be simple and clear above all

    else Once something is simple, you can make it easy (but not in reverse - that’s “magic”
  8. How could we do this new thing, with less code,

    less effort and less barriers “
  9. You drive DX… * So open issues on any repository

    with a [DX] at the beginning of the title