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Symfony Hackathon 2025 review

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Stephan Hochdörfer
Stephan Hochdörfer
Head of IT Business Operations

Last week, I visited Cologne to join the Sylius hackathon organized by our friends from WilMa Digital.

On Thursday, a small team gathered to discuss potential topics to work on during the next two days. The topics couldn't be more diverse: Tailwind customizations, AI integration, and code quality improvements were just a few of the topics mentioned.

I decided to work on a PHPStan extension for Sylius, similar to what I had done for Magento in the past. Since I hadn't worked with PHPStand extensions for a while, it took me quite some time to get into it again. However, I managed to have two rulesets ready by the end of the first day. I took the second day to improve the code and the tests and to add more rulesets to the extension.

Meanwhile, if you want to test with it, I published the package on GitHub. The extension is very experimental, e.g. it currently only works if you have configured your resources with PHP attributes, but I think the result is pretty interesting and offers a base to work on.

Kudos to all participants for achieving their goals, and big thanks to the Wilma Digital team for organizing the hackathon.