Archive: 2025-03 | Page 21
Archive: March 2025
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Mar 6, 2025
Many product teams treat infinite scroll as the obvious pattern for category and feed pages, since it spares users the friction of clicking a next button. For search engines, though, that same pattern is a structural problem, because a crawler does not click, does not scroll, and does not wait for lazily loaded content to appear. Without additional technical measures, a significant share of the content on an infinite scroll page simply stays invisible to Googlebot.
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Mar 6, 2025
A single list query followed by one query per item inside a loop looks harmless during development, yet turns into hundreds or thousands of database calls per page request under production load. This article shows how to spot the N+1 query problem in ORM and collection code, fix it with eager loading and batch queries, and keep it from returning with profiling tools.
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Mar 6, 2025
For years, PHP developers wrote a pair of getX() and setX() methods for every validated or computed property. Property Hooks move that logic directly into the property declaration itself, with get and set hooks that behave like plain fields for callers while keeping full control over reads and writes.
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Mar 6, 2025
If you only find out about quality gates in the CI pipeline, you lose minutes or hours on feedback loops that could have been resolved locally in seconds. PHPStan, PHPUnit, PHPCS and Rector can be integrated into PhpStorm so that errors become visible right at the moment you save, without ever leaving the command line.
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Mar 6, 2025
The Symfony Form component is one of the most powerful and most complex in the ecosystem. Anyone who only uses built-in types gives away half its potential. Custom Form Types encapsulate reusability, Data Transformers bridge the gap between form input and domain objects, without boilerplate in every single form.
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Mar 6, 2025
Once a Magento store works with microservices, external APIs, and asynchronous queues, classic logging loses sight of every request the moment it crosses a system boundary. Distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry connects every sub step into one continuous chain and shows exactly where latency comes from.
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Mar 6, 2025
Every new global state, whether theme, authentication, or feature flags, tends to add another layer of nested context providers around a React application's root. This article shows how to replace that deeply nested Provider Hell with a composable AppProviders pattern, including provider order, memoization, TypeScript typing, and testing.
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Mar 6, 2025
String aggregation folds multiple rows of a group into a single, comma separated text list, for example every tag of a product in one row instead of several rows. MySQL uses GROUP_CONCAT for this, PostgreSQL and SQL Server use STRING_AGG, Oracle uses LISTAGG. This article shows syntax, ordering, separators and length limits of all four systems side by side.
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Mar 6, 2025
Components that handle data fetching, form validation and UI state all at once are hard to test, hard to maintain and hard to reuse. Custom Hook Extraction is the fundamental React pattern that separates logic from presentation, making both better at the same time.
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Mar 5, 2025
Anyone who does not know the exact order in which Magento and Hyva resolve a template between module, parent theme and custom theme wastes time on overrides that seem to have no effect. The Hyva fallback mechanism follows a fixed, deterministic order that can be used deliberately once you understand it, without duplicating the parent theme or blocking future updates.