Lessons learned while developing with Sylius
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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 developing with 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 clients create 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 all started?
- 6. 4 years ago, Sylius v0.6.0 Talks: ezPublish and Sylius integration Sylius Meetup PHP Verona Unconference track WebCamp Ljubljana Lightning Talk
- 8. We learned a lot We started a few times from the beginning BCs killed us Daily upgrades
- 9. Don’t reinvent the wheel but think twice!
- 10. Is the product ready for production? When will it be ready? Can you maintain it? Will it save you some time and money?
- 11. Roadmaps are not written in stone
- 12. Roadmap will be changed 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/care about your business
- 14. His product comes first Feature list is never final Be ready for big changes You should think about your business
- 15. Good Code doesn’t sell
- 16. Business owners don’t want 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 learn from good code!
- 18. BDD TDD Symfony best practices Large project organisation
- 20. You need time and 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 a good sales channel
- 22. Agencies and clients are following GitHub You can boost your visibility You can boost your skills
- 24. You will meet a lot of smart and cool people You will get some new partners You will learn a lot about communities and how they work
- 25. Sylius today
- 27. Better organisation More mature projects Clear roadmap
- 28. Great fit for small 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)
- 29. QA