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Lessons learned while developing with Sylius
This document discusses lessons learned from developing with the Sylius e-commerce platform over 4 years. It notes that Sylius has improved with better organization, more mature code, and a clearer roadmap. However, daily upgrades were initially challenging and business owners prioritize features over code quality. Open source contributing provides skills growth but requires dedicated time. Networking in the Sylius community introduces partners and helps understand how communities work.
Lessons learned while developing with Sylius
- 1. Lessons learned while developingwith Sylius Antonio Perić-Mažar, CEO @ Locastic
- 2. Antonio Perić-Mažar, mag.ing. comp. CEO, Co-Founder @ Locastic Co-Founder @ Shi# Conference So#ware developer, Symfony2 Open Source Contributor SFUGCRO www.locastic.com antonio@locastic.com @antonioperic
- 3. We help clientscreate amazing web and mobile apps (since 2011) www.locastic.com @Locastic Design and development agency Mobile development Web development UX/UI Training and Consulting Shi! Conference, Symfony Croatia
- 5. How it allstarted?
- 6. 4 years ago,Sylius v0.6.0 Talks: ezPublish and Sylius integration Sylius Meetup PHP Verona Unconference track WebCamp Ljubljana Lightning Talk
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- 8. We learned alot We started a few times from the beginning BCs killed us Daily upgrades
- 9. Don’t reinvent thewheel but think twice!
- 10. Is the productready for production? When will it be ready? Can you maintain it? Will it save you some time and money?
- 11. Roadmaps are not writtenin stone
- 12. Roadmap will bechanged You are just a part of community and you cannot force it in your direction Sometimes you will wait for months to get roadmap updated
- 13. Project owner doesn’t think/careabout your business
- 14. His product comesfirst Feature list is never final Be ready for big changes You should think about your business
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- 16. Business owners don’twant to pay for good code Features are important Nice code won’t upgrade to 1.0.0.-alpha Do you have time and budget to build all what is missing?
- 17. You can learnfrom good code!
- 18. BDD TDD Symfony best practices Largeproject organisation
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- 20. You need timeand budget It is hard to do it while you are working on a project for clients It’s a good thing to do
- 21. Open Source is agood sales channel
- 22. Agencies and clientsare following GitHub You can boost your visibility You can boost your skills
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- 24. You will meeta lot of smart and cool people You will get some new partners You will learn a lot about communities and how they work
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- 27. Better organisation More matureprojects Clear roadmap
- 28. Great fit forsmall ecommerce projects Lack of features should be fixed with plugins eco system Great fit for large custom projects (if you have symfony developers in your team)
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