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How to create custom actions for the Symfony 4 EasyAdminBundle

I am working on an API application that automates the deployments to a Docker Swarm cluster which inspired the this article. The application is using a combination of the API Platform and the EasyAdminBundle, which are the opinionated choices of the Symfony community for the Symfony Flex recipes of “api” and “admin”. One trick that is helpful to know is how to create custom actions in the admin overviews. The final system should automate the Read more…

By nielsvandermolen, ago

Songs from Nick Cave you should listen to

When I was a kid and developed a taste for music, I was exposed to the music of my father. For the younger generation, in my youth, we did not have YouTube or Spotify, so we were limited to the music your parents bought (or later downloaded). When we went on holiday, we only had music in the form of the cassette player and then CD’s in the car (my dad does not enjoy listening Read more…

By nielsvandermolen, ago
Jenkins pipeline

A continuous integration pipeline with Jenkins in Docker

This article should be useful for people that want to build their continuous integration system with Jenkins or those who are evaluating the option. We show in an example of a Jenkinsfile where we build a Symfony application with Composer, execute PHPUnit tests and how we pushed the Docker images to a custom repository. Furthermore, we show how we execute the pipeline on a Docker Swarm cluster with a custom Jenkins agent. The reason for Read more…

By nielsvandermolen, ago
API Platform and Symfony 4

How to build a Symfony 4 API Platform application from scratch

Symfony 4 and the API Platform Framework make it easy to create an API application with basic CRUD operations. However, in real-world applications more advanced features (e.g. authentication and custom endpoints) are needed which require quite a bit of knowledge to set-up. Therefore, in this blog article, we explore these advanced features by creating an example application that covers the following topics: Step 1. Installation of API Platform and the EasyAdminBundle Step 2. Creation of Read more…

By nielsvandermolen, ago

Why and how you should use Docker with Symfony 4

Symfony 4 made a deliberate choice to create new features to support microservices. Symfony Flex and Recipes make it easy to create a project that holds the minimal of dependencies, for example, the Twig (layout) component is not loaded when creating a minimal API application: 12composer create-project symfony/skeleton my-project composer req api This makes Symfony 4 a good choice for setting up our microservices especially in combination with the reduced complexity of bundle-less applications and sensible Read more…

By nielsvandermolen, ago

What to expect of this blog?

This blog is written mainly to have a reason to do research and to document the progress in the hope it will be useful for the audience. I expect to benefit from this blog by getting in touch with like-minded people and receiving feedback about the topics. My background is in computer science and engineering with an MSc in Human Media Interaction and with four-year experience as a Drupal developer with experience in enterprise solution architecture for Read more…

By nielsvandermolen, ago