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PHPStorm, Magento & WSL2 Performance

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· 2 min read
Stephan Hochdörfer
Head of IT Business Operations

Whilst I migrated from Linux to Windows and WSL 2 more than a year ago, I had a plan to install any development-related tools like Git or PHPStorm in WSL2. PHPStorm worked quite ok in WSL 2 except that filesystem changes (e.g. adding or removing files) made directly in WSL 2 were not properly recognized by PHPStorm. Even triggering a manual refresh from the disk did not always work. That made me install PHPStorm on Windows and open PHP projects via the WSL 2 integration of PHPStorm. That works better but still has its issues with larger projects.

Magento, Docker & Traefik

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This blog post was published more than one year ago and might be outdated!
· 4 min read
Stephan Hochdörfer
Head of IT Business Operations

Besides being big fans of Mark Shust's Docker Configuration for Magento project as I already blogged about, we also love Traefik, the Cloud Native Edge Router. I discovered Traefik years ago and try to use it wherever we can. Depending on the project's goals we either use the open-source version or the enterprise edition. Disclaimer: I am Traefik Ambassador, so I might be a bit biased :)

Hashing password in an Event Engine application

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This blog post was published more than one year ago and might be outdated!
· 3 min read
Stephan Hochdörfer
Head of IT Business Operations

For a few projects we make use of the Event Engine by prooph software which is a biased - in a good way(tm) - way of quickly building event sourced applications. While building a user registration context, I was stuck a bit how and where to properly hash the password for the user. I could have done it in the init() method of the command, that way I would have made sure that the cleartext password is not "visible" anywhere in the application code. In the end, I decided to make use of a provider class. The return value of the provider will be passed to the specified aggregate method and allows me to pass it to the respective event.

Enabling OAuth2 in Event Engine

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Stephan Hochdörfer
Head of IT Business Operations

In a recent project, we make use of the Event Engine which is an Event Sourcing framework for PHP helping you to rapidly develop event sourced applications. Since parts of the exposed API by the Event Engine should be access proteced, we decided to use OAuth2 for access delegation. That way each route exposed by the Event engine application can be marked as "protected" if needed.

Fast. Faster. Composer 2.0

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· 3 min read
Stephan Hochdörfer
Head of IT Business Operations

A few days ago Jordi announced the first dev build of Composer 2.0. I immediately went and downloaded it. Since version 2.x should be a lot faster, I thought it is a good idea to test it against a current Magento 2 project I am working on. I was a bit disappointed first because Composer failed with quite a few errors like that:

My preferred CaptainHook setup (for Magento)

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Stephan Hochdörfer
Head of IT Business Operations

Back at #mageuc19 I gave a talk about various PHP tools that help you to manage the quality of your (Magento) project. One of the tools I mentioned is CaptainHook, a tool written in PHP to manage your git hooks. Whilst this is not a QA tool per se, it still made sense to showcase it as most QA tools do run via CaptainHook in our projects. That means tools like PHPUnit, Codesniffer, Security Checker or tools like PHPStan or Psalm.