Sylius Days 2025 review
Last week, I attended the Sylius Days 2025 event in Paris. This was my third time attending the event, and as always, I enjoyed my time at the event and meeting friends from the community.
When I discovered that Sylius Days 2025 would again be hosted in Paris at the Smile office, I immediately booked my ticket and planned my trip. This gave me the opportunity to not only reconnect with the Sylius community but also to see our friends from Gally and SensioLabs.
The event featured some great talks ranging from AI integration in Sylius to Automation techniques with n8n and presenting Gally as a Searchandising solution:
Sabrine Ferchichi & Alexandre Haroutunian showed us how they integrated an AI chatbot for one of their Sylius projects to let customers quickly order goods via text chat. The solution looked impressive, and they put a lot of thought and testing in place to avoid the typical AI hallucinations. Thanks to Sylius' flexible API, it seemed easy to manage the AI integration as far as I understood.
This event marked my first opportunity to watch my friend Romain Ruaud present on Gally. I had missed his talk at SyliusCon last year, so it was a great chance to see him and the Sylius plugin we originally developed in action. Given that Gally is built on top of the same building blocks as Sylius, it is an ideal choice for those seeking a robust, self-hosted search solution for Sylius (or other e-commerce platforms).
In addition to Romain, it was great to see and hear Jacques Bodin-Hullin speak again, this time about Sylius Automation with n8n. The presentation was well organized and included intriguing use cases and demonstrations on how to integrate Sylius with n8n. I will definitely add this to my to-do list for experimentation.
I was the most excited about Francis Hilaire's talk on the new Payment Request functionality in Sylius 2.0. He provided an in-depth look at how it works, focusing on the Stripe plugin he developed specifically for this new Payment Request architecture.
In other talks, we learned about Translation Without Pain (Mathieu Santostefano), Fast = Green (Guillaume Moigneu), and Kévin Dunglas introduced us to FrankenPHP - the modern app server written in Go.
The theme of the second day was the "From Zero to Hero with Sylius" workshop led by Gracjan Józefczyk. Gracjan did an excellent job explaining all the building blocks of Sylius and how to work with them. Despite his initial belief that I probably wouldn't learn anything from him, I did. Well done, Gracjan!
See you at the next Sylius event! Maybe in Mannheim on the 26th of June?