New Nette 2.4 is out
After a summer break, here comes a whole heap of news and info about what has
been going on and what is in the picture. The hottest piece of news is the new
version of Nette Framework 2.4. A complex overview of changes made to the
framework, including all novelties related to versioning, can be found on the
release webpage: https://forum.nette.org/…2-4-released.
In short, in the future only respective packages will be versioned (such as the
release described here: https://forum.nette.org/…4-2016-07-31).
Other big changes that should be mentioned is Nette/Object replacement with
traits, see David's talk from Hradec Králové: https://www.youtube.com/watch?…
and the fact the “guts” of Latte, a template system, have been rewritten (a
video from Plzeň will be published on YouTube soon). Here is also a post
bringing attention to what you need to be careful about when migrating: https://forum.nette.org/…nette-2-4-rc.
If you're still unsure whether you should use the latest version of Nette
Framework or not, why don't you read a short post from the Slevomat boys about
changin to 2.4: https://twitter.com/…122388672512,
there are more and more companies following the example. In case you run on
2.4 too, tweet with hashtag #nettefw.
Nette Camp
A four-day event filled with Nette and beer took place in a quaint village
in Czech Paradise and judging from the reactions, it was a hit. Speaking on
behalf of organisers, we have learnt yet a lot and let's hope it will be for
the benefit of future events. You can expect Nette Camp 2017 again in the last
two weeks of August. As a surprise we migrated addons.nette.org to a new portal:
https://componette.com .
pehapkari.cz
Following several meetings with Tomáš Votruba, the Czech Symfony community
care-taker, we put our heads together and we are starting to build a framework
non specific php community. More news to be expected on twitter @pehapkari. Follow us for what's hot
in the czech php world. We started to broadcast a podcast too! : http://nejenophp.cz
In a Nutshell
Compatible extensions releases go hand in hand with the release of new Nette
Framework version. Most packages are compatible with Nette 2.4 already, if
sometimes in @dev versions for now. We are still waiting for some stable
releases.
Profiler
Petr Knap from Netpromotion released a simple PHP profiler with a Tracy
extension: https://github.com/…ion/profiler
Nette and Webpack
Jirka Pudil wrote an article on how to interlink these two platforms in an
easy way: https://jiripudil.cz/…with-webpack
In Conclusion
If you have ideas how to improve our next edition, please let me know. Have
I forgotten something? Make sure to email me and we will include it in the next
edition. We are still looking for partners who wish to address the growing
community interested in our news.
Honza Cerny
P.S.: David released a new framework version ready to support php 7.1 while
I was writing my intro: https://forum.nette.org/…4-2016-09-30
Nette 2.4 is coming closer
At the last PoSobota meetup, David Grudl introduced the news waiting for us
in the version 2.4 which should become the LTS in Nette version 2. There are
big plans with Nette version 3, especially regarding PHP 7, therefore the
version 2.4 should most likely be the version for all Nette 2.x projects to
stick to for good, thus the prolonged support. As of today, the minimal support
of each .x version is 2 years, prolonged by at least a year in the LTS
version.
Nette Camp
Summer is coming! (pun intended) and the planned outing in the open is coming
with it. You can pre-register at www.nettecamp.cz. Together with Tomas Jacik,
we are preparing many new things and we will try to overcome the obstacles
exposed by last year’s 0th Camp. The date is 25 – 28 August 2016 and we
are moving the venue to Český ráj.
Briefly…
Nittro
Dan Kadera is actively working on Nittro, a JavaScript framework for Nette
Framework. Among new components, there is: Paginator, AutoConfirm or Dropzone.
Make sure to follow @nittrojs for upcoming demos. https://www.nittro.org/
VS Code
If you are coding in VS Code, you will surely be pleased with syntax support
for Latte and NEON. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?…
Viktor
A new version of the utility Viktor https://github.com/nella/victor was
released. The utility checks whether you have the latest version of libraries
installed with composer.
Worth reading…
Martin Zlamal published an article about replacing RobotLoader with PSR-4 in
a new Nette application. http://zlml.cz/…der-aplikace
And not only that. He also wrote an article describing how the “magical”
mapping of presenters works. http://zlml.cz/…g-presenteru
To Conclude
If you desire to leave some feedback or whether you miss some important info
here, please contact me.
Honza Černý (it’s like John Black) hello@honzacerny.com
Thanks to Rockaway
We Are Expanding
Our Czech mailing list community already counts more than 600 subscribers.
It is a shame that we are not able to gauge the exact count of newcomers who
decided to read this actual post. But I believe that this number is going to
rise at least as fast as the Czech, local one.
Nette Framework
A new patch version of Nette Framework has just released. It brings a few
novelties that may be found at https://forum.nette.org/…3-9-released.
I cannot leave out, at least, one of them – it is now possible to turn off
the Tracy by Debugger::$showBar = FALSE; The last stable versions
(2.3.9, 2.2.12 and even 2.1.12) are fully compatible with PHP 7 and, as a
bonus, version 2.3.9 is able to get use of PHP 7 features as argument type
hints and a return type of a generated factory.
But this is not the end yet. There has also been proposed Nette 2.4 release
plan; the subsequent issue of this newsletter is going to contain some more info
about it.
Tracy Built Upon AJAX
David Kadera is
currently working on some changes that I would like to mention. The
functionality of Tracy is going to be enhanced with support for AJAX (and likely
CLI also) – the first dose of code and tests are already online. You can
review a working prototype at https://github.com/…ree/ajax-bar.
PhpStorm Plugins
The popular PhpStorm plugins have been updated – David Matějka
submitted their new versions during February. Especially autocomplete feature in
the NEON plugin works pretty well. David has also recoded a core of Nette
Framework plugin that is no longer causing occasional deadlocks. And this is not
the end – a new version of Latte plugin has also been released, which
(besides of ordinary and n: macros) fully supports HTML, Emmet, JavaScript and
CSS development.
These plugins are accessible through the JetBrains Plugin Repository (Neon, Nette and Latte). You might also want
to support us by starring our corresponding GitHub repositories. Neon ★, Nette ★, Latte ★
#NetteFwPivo
More and more people are coming to our informal discussing event, so as a
consequence, we are expanding to even more locations during the next month.
A new Facebook page is about to
be set that is going to work as a hub of organizing these events at even more
places – e.g. it will be possible to involve cities as Vienna or Berlin.
Shirts
You can support our team by purchasing
official Nette t-shirts from a recently launched online store. Also, when
you are buying a t-shirt, don't forget to order some more Nette stickers;
Unfortunately, out-of-Czech delivery is not currently supported. But anyway, in
case of demand of any item, you can still contact me.
NettePro
A reveal of NettePro is coming soon. David Matějka has already coded a
ticket support app and David Grudl is finishing a registration tool and a
dashboard containing info provided to our partners. Last, my work is to hire
people for a support team (Nette Support Commando – will be adjusted 
).
In a Nutshell
Componette
Milan is
constantly updating a new addons portal
which is about to lose its beta tag soon. Test it and leave a feedback.
Nette\Object
A lifespan of this hangover tool is certainly heading to the end. A Newer
version of Nette Framework will replace this object by Trait collection. You can
already see it in production at Dibi and Texy projects.
Nextras community has released new major
version of its new popular ORM newcomer.
Change list may be accessed from here.
Nette Tester & PhpStorm
Jirka is
currently working on a code integration, see the online
repository.
To Conclude
You have just finished reading of the first official NettePro Newsletter. If
you desire to leave some feedback or whether you miss some important info here,
please contact me.
Honza Černý (it’s like John Black) hello@honzacerny.com
We are starting something new
This article is a shortened translation of a Czech e-mail magazine. Honza started with
writing some news from our community and foundation. Because we want to talk to
you, no matter where you are, we have also turned this e-mail magazine into a
blog post. We are planning a new article delivery in every 2–3 weeks. However,
a brief delay might occur depending on a translation speed. If you'd like to
help us with a content and/or corrections, contact Honza for more information.
We are open for any help.
#NetteFwPivo
This Twitter hashtag stands for small repeated events and casual community
meetings. An English equivalent, #NetteFwBeer, will also be used. These casual
meetings take place every second Wednesday in a month. If you'd like to set up
your own local community event, just create an event at http://eventle.com/(or elsewhere) and promote
it on a Nette forum. We want the community to grow and this is a one of the ways
how we are able to make it happen.
“Poslední sobota”
“Poslední sobota”, which stands for Last Saturday, is a bigger happening
that is taking place on the last Saturday of every month. Unfortunately, it is
only Czech event (so far). However, we are planning to spread the event to even
more locations (there is still plenty of places to visit) to gather and keep all
the local Nette comunities together. We’d also love to visit places beyond
Czech borders to come up with some new amazing English talks. If you want to
land a hand, don’t hesitate to contact us. Initially, we’d like to expand to
Germany, Poland, Austria and Slovakia, but our door is certainly open to many
other countries as well. :)
Addons portal
Milan (Felix)
released a new version of a next generation addons portal. This is the place
where you can find a lot of addons for your Nette applications. It’s still in
beta, but we are working hard to make it as seamless as possible. As soon as all
the addons are available and latest minor visual improvements are finished, we
will place the new portal whereas the old one is going to serve as an example
Nette application on GitHub. So, if you have any ideas or bug reports, please
open an issue on GitHub or just tell us on Gitter:gitter.im/componette/componette
T-shirts!
We are planning to launch a Nette Pro merchandise e-shop. The e-shop is
comming out in late February. First offer will cover (official) t-shirts only,
but some additional products may be coming soon. Any gained profits will be used
to buy either new or existing equipment capable of recording our events to make
them accessible to even broader audience.
Shorts
Tester
New version of a Tester testing tool has been released. Milo wrote a blog post
describing new features and changes involved. You can find it here: https://blog.nette.org/…tester-1-7-0.
FTP deployment
If you are using FTP as a software deployment tool, you’ll definitely
appreciate a new version of ftp-deployment tool that has been currently released
by David. You can find
more about the 2.3 release, including some news, on GitHub release page at https://github.com/…ses/tag/v2.3.
Lean Mapper
ORM Dibi-based database layer, originally developed by Vojta (Tharos), will be taken
over by Mirek (Castamir).
He’s been using Lean Mapper for a long time and has a lot of new ideas and
improvements to implement.
For the end
Next magazine edition will come shortly. This article is covering only a
small portion of all the changes planned. Finally, as a sneak peek, we are
working on a new navigation through nette.org portal. In upcoming edition, there
will be information about a lot of new stuff, including changes in codebase and,
of course, Nette Pro.
If you’d like to help us with further improvements, just contact Honza.
Nette Tester 1.7.0 is out. I'll summarize the changes.
HtmlGenerator, which generates HTML code coverage report, now counts lines
from not evaluated files as not covered. The only impact is, that you can see
lower percentual coverage in report. Imagine the situation, that you have two
source files (same lenght for simplification), but only one of them is loaded by
tests. You got 100% coverage before, now you get only 50%.
If you are using TestCase test methods with @dataProvider, data
provider method can return Traversable now. As a consequence of
this, you can use generator (yield). It is handy for lazy data
loading, for example from remote API. Short example:
class RemoteAPITest extends Tester\TestCase
{
public function testMe($arg)
{
Assert::same(..., $arg);
}
public function getRemoteData()
{
foreach ($this->remoteService->cases() as $case) {
yield [$case];
}
}
}
(new RemoteAPITest)->run();
Few changes happend in Dumper class. There is a object hash among the dumps.
It helps to recognize a dumped object identity.
# Before
(object) array()
(object) array()
(object) array()
# Now
(object) /* #f231 */ array()
(object) /* #1550 */ array()
(object) /* #f231 */ array()
Dumper::dumpException() shows line of source code beside an Assert call in a
stack trace.
# Before
Failed: 27 should be 25
in tests/Utils/Strings.phpt(23) Tester\Assert::same()
in Utils/tests/bootstrap.php(39) {closure}()
in tests/Utils/Strings.phpt(32) test()
# Now
Failed: 27 should be 25
in tests/Utils/Strings.phpt(23) Tester\Assert::same(25, Strings::indexOf($foo, '1'));
in Utils/tests/bootstrap.php(39) {closure}()
in tests/Utils/Strings.phpt(32) test()
Next change is related to @dataProvider. You could use the INI
file path before, now you can use PHP script as a data provider. You have to
return array or Traversable from it.
return json_decode(__FILE__ . '/data.json');
return new DirectoryIterator(__DIR__ . '/data-files');
return [
'one' => ['a', 'b', 'c'],
'two' => ['d', 'e', 'f'],
];
Next two small changes. Environment variable
term = xterm-256color enables color printing. And
FileMock now supports unlink()ing.
And one big change as the last. Tester now supports PHPDBG SAPI with PHP
7.0.0 or newer. The biggest impact of it targets code coverage. PHPDBG offers
mechanism to collect information about executed lines of source code. By the
other words, it can collect code coverage statistics. It is faster alternative
to Xdebug which is not needed with PHPDBG. Usage is simple:
vendor/bin/tester -p /path/to/phpdbg --coverage coverage.html --coverage-src src
Some plans on the end. Tester supports PHP 5.3 now. We agreed that we will
wait two or three weeks after 1.7.0 release and we will skip to 5.4 at least.
I belive, that Tester 1.7.0 is good enough for PHP 5.3 projects. But if you
are against, leave us a comment with arguments.
Many thanks to volunteers which contributed! This relase is actually their
work. Check out the changes.
Tester's documentation is up to
date.