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Jun 30, 2025
Schema definition, query language, mutations, and resolvers are the four load-bearing pillars of every GraphQL system. Anyone who understands how they work together and where the typical mistakes happen builds APIs that scale, instead of APIs that have to be rebuilt after the first release to production.
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Jun 30, 2025
Anyone looking to customize the Hyvä checkout in Magento 2 runs into an architecture with no Knockout.js and no UI Components at all: checkout steps are rendered server-side as phtml templates and made reactive through Alpine.js. This article uses real code to show how custom checkout steps, additional form fields, and clean validation get integrated into the Hyvä checkout without touching the theme core and without touching a single Knockout template.
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Jun 29, 2025
Neither Magento Open Source nor Adobe Commerce On-Premise ship native rate limiting for the REST API, OAuth consumers and integration permissions only govern which resources a client may call, not how often. This article shows how to meaningfully combine the webserver and application layers, and walks through a token bucket implementation built as a plugin that counts consistently across multiple web nodes using Redis.
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Jun 29, 2025
PhpStorm ships with a full database client, complete with SQL autocompletion, EXPLAIN PLAN visualization, schema diff and query analysis. Anyone who knows these tools no longer needs to open TablePlus, DBeaver or Sequel Pro.
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Jun 29, 2025
PhpStorm can do more than just display code: start Docker Compose services, activate Xdebug in the container, run Magento CLI commands, and use the remote interpreter for autocompletion, once you know what really belongs together and what is better left in the terminal.
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Jun 26, 2025
Every unpatched Magento store is an open invitation the moment a vulnerability becomes public. This article covers Adobe's release cadence, the real time window between CVE disclosure and active exploitation, a Composer-based patch workflow with staging tests, and the most common excuses for not patching along with why they fail in practice.
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Jun 25, 2025
Well over six years after Magento 1 reached end of life, shops still run on the old platform, without security updates and with growing risk. A clean Magento 1 to Magento 2 migration requires far more than the Data Migration Tool: EAV mapping pitfalls, a complete theme rebuild, URL redirects and converting password hashes decide whether the switch goes smoothly or ends in data loss.
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Jun 25, 2025
PhpStorm on a Magento 2 project with hundreds of thousands of vendor files can feel like a sluggish tool. The reason is almost always the same: too many files in the index, too little heap memory, too many active plugins. With systematic diagnosis the problem can be fixed within an hour.
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Jun 24, 2025
Magento 2 ships its own test infrastructure that differs substantially from a standard PHPUnit project. If you want to run integration tests directly from PHPStorm, see coverage reports in the IDE, and debug individual test methods with a single click, you need specific configuration, which this article covers in full.