Sylius is an amazing e-commerce framework. You should consider it as a real solution.

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2. ~7 months ago
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3. A year ago, everything changed.
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4. Sylius a few chocolate chips later.
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5. Sylius: the good choice.
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6. Jacques Bodin-Hullin
Founder and Facilitator at Monsieur Biz
@jacquesbh & @monsieurbiz
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7. It started from
there.
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8. And happened
there.
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9. What do we do?
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11. Why?
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12. Because…
• Too much complexity
• Too many resources consuming
• Too much everything…
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13. This is the Magento 2
learning curve.
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14. Do you know
what they missed?
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15. They should have rebuilt
the en2re project with Symfony!
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18. Keys to success in e-commerce
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19. Keep focusing on the business features
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20. Do not forget cookies & GDPR
Even for Swiss companies if you're selling in Europe.
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21. Do not forget opengraph, microdata, social
media…
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22. Try to keep your SEO
By using a real tool to track your 404 pages and perform the
redirects with ease.
Like redirec)on.io! (this tool is amazing )
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23. Use marke)ng tools, do not build them
GTM for all the JavaScript tags, MailChimp for targeted emails, etc.
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24. Be fast. Really.
Keep your TTFB under 200ms.
Get the cherry on the cake by using Varnish (or not…).
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25. Get a nice search engine
Elas%csearch of course.
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26. Get a beau(ful design
And keep in mind that a good frontend development is important.
Made by Digital Ping Pong <3 26

27. Have a complete API
Because one day you'll have a na0ve app or two, or even a PWA.
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28. Use the correct framework!
Sylius?
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29. And now…
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30. Sylius, what the hell is that?
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31. First, a story from Poland
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32. PHP 7.3 & Symfony 4
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34. Some features
• The perfect transla/on bundle.
• The perfect fixtures bundle.
• The perfect theme bundle.
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35. They use render() a lot in the templates
{{ render(
url(
'sylius_shop_partial_cart_summary',
{'template': '@SyliusShop/Cart/_widget.html.twig'}
)
) }}
But it doesn't affect the performance of your app.
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37. Mul$ ***
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38. Even a category
page!
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39. An amazing database schema.
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41. The basics in a box.
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42. What did we get?
• A lot of work.
• Some training with Sylius (the company).
• An internal hackathon.
• 387 Pull Requests (~2 PR a day) for the Sylius projects only.
• A full new setup, thanks to Symfony.
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43. We changed a lot of things
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44. Our setup
Before:
• Docker + Docker-sync on macOS.
• S3ll some issues.
• Self signed SSL cer3ficates with all the struggle.
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45. Our setup
A"er:
• Docker.
• Symfony binary.
• Self signed cer6ficates without the struggle.
About the symfony binary: h2ps://jolicode.com/blog/my-local-server-with-the-symfony-binary
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47. The symfony binary is the key
• Easy to install
• CA root cer1ficate to generate *.wip cer1ficates
• You can change the TLD (use *.dave? or *.test…)
• A dedicated version of PHP per project : echo 7.3 > /my-
project/.php-version
• A dedicated php.ini per project.
• …
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48. Our workflow
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52. We use make!
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54. .DEFAULT_GOAL := help
# Configuration
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DOMAINS=apps/sylius:icecream
SYLIUS_FIXTURES_SUITE=icecream
THEME_NAME=IcecreamTheme
# and much more…
### QUICK
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up start: docker.up symfony.server.start ## Up
down: docker.down symfony.server.stop ## Down
stop: docker.stop symfony.server.stop ## Stop
logs: symfony.server.log ## Logs
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55. ### OTHERS
# ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
# Thanks to Marmelab for the initial script
.PHONY: help
help: ## Dislay this help
@IFS=$$'n'; for line in `grep -h -E '^[a-zA-Z_#-]+:?.*?## .*$$' $(MAKEFILE_LIST)`; do if [ "$${line:0:2}" = "##" ]; then
echo $$line | awk 'BEGIN {FS = "## "}; {printf "n033[33m%s033[0mn", $$2}'; else
echo $$line | awk 'BEGIN {FS = ":.*?## "}; {printf "033[36m%-40s033[0m %sn", $$1, $$2}'; fi;
done; unset IFS;
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56. Madame Biz ❤
She is a bot. 56

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60. We use
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Docker! (a lot)
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61. In produc*on as well.
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62. We use fabric!
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63. The best deployment tool ever.
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67. We use Ansible!
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69. We are sure that the preprod and prod are isofunc1onal
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70. Finally, we are just removing the
fric7on.
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71. And Sylius helps a lot!
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72. But you need to have the great tools as well.
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74. Sylius, s)ll the good choice?
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76. With the good pla-orm you can plug the great
tools and focus on your business and your
team.
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77. That's it.
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78. Wait… Wait… This morning…
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79. Some answers
• Sylius has plugins, but not (yet) as much as Magento.
• You can't install or upgrade a plugin or the pla=orm with a GUI,
you have to ask a developer (beDer that way! You don't want to
have your shop on fire).
• Is it SEO friendly? → Depends on the developers…
• Will it cost a lost to add features? → No. Just the price it has to
cost.
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