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Building Hyvä CMS Blocks and Widgets in the Theme

Maxim Mironjuk - March 12, 2025

Editorial content from the admin panel lands in Hyva without Knockout.js and without UI components, sitting directly inside the utility first layout, which means WYSIWYG markup has to be deliberately reconciled with Tailwind classes instead of simply being included. Teams that structure Hyva CMS blocks and widgets cleanly from the start save themselves CSP rework, FPC invalidation problems and inconsistent typography further down the road.

Magento REST-API

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Magento Webhooks: Sending Events Reliably to External Systems

Maxim Mironjuk - March 10, 2025

Passing Magento events to external systems through cron polling wastes real-time capability and puts unnecessary load on the database. This article shows how Magento webhooks can be implemented robustly, transparently and portably across Open Source and Commerce using an observer, a message queue and signed HTTP delivery. The focus is on HMAC signatures, retry strategies and a complete delivery log for production-ready webhook delivery.

Magento GraphQl

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OpenSearch and Magento GraphQL: How Search Really Works Together

Maxim Mironjuk - March 10, 2025

When a Magento GraphQL product search is slow, the problem is rarely in the GraphQL layer itself. It is almost always in how search requests get routed through resolvers to OpenSearch, and whether indexing, filter mapping and sorting are configured correctly.

Magento PHP

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PHPStan Level 8 for Magento Modules | Setup and Baseline

Maxim Mironjuk - March 09, 2025

Magento 2 · Quality

PHPStan Level 8 for Magento Modules
Setup and Baseline

Static analysis often delivers more for Magento 2 than the next big testing debate. What matters is how you introduce PHPStan. Teams that just stack up error messages or blindly freeze a baseline get little quality and a lot of resistance.

18 min read PHPStan Magento 2.4.8

Table of Contents

1. Why PHPStan brings so much value to Magento 2
2. PHPStan setup for Magento modules
3. Using the baseline correctly
4. What Level 8 means in practice
5. Rolling it out in the team and in CI
6. Common mistakes
7. PHPStan vs. pure test coverage
8. Magento 2 support
9. Summary
10. FAQ

1. Why PHPStan brings so much value to Magento 2

PHPStan Magento 2 is, for many teams, the fastest route to more stable code quality. Magento projects often contain many service layers, data objects, repositories, plugins, and configuration paths where type errors or wrong assumptions surface late. Static

Magento Hyvä

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Structuring Hyvä Header and Footer Layout XML Properly

Maxim Mironjuk - March 09, 2025

Hardcoding header and footer markup directly into a phtml template costs real time on every theme update and every module extension: blocks cannot be moved cleanly, third-party modules find no entry point, and every customization ends up as a full template copy. Structuring the Hyvä header and footer layout XML solves exactly this problem, with containers, blocks and ViewModels that keep working after the next Hyvä update.

Magento Docker PHPStorm PHP Testing/E2E Git

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Bundling Quality Gates Locally in PhpStorm: PHPStan, PHPUnit, PHPCS, Rector

Maxim Mironjuk - March 06, 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.

Magento Web Performance

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Distributed Tracing in Magento with OpenTelemetry

Maxim Mironjuk - March 06, 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.

Magento Hyvä

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Understanding the Hyvä Fallback Mechanism: Template Resolution in Magento 2

Maxim Mironjuk - March 05, 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.

Magento Design Patterns

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Preferences vs. Plugins in Magento 2: Which Extension Strategy When? | Mironsoft

Maxim Mironjuk - February 28, 2025

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Deep Dive · Magento 2 Extensibility

Preferences vs. Plugins:
Which Extension Strategy When?

How interceptors work internally, why Preferences are usually the wrong choice, and the exact rules for Before, After, and Around plugins.

15 min read

Magento 2.4.8 · PHP 8.4

Magento Extension Points

Contents

1. Two ways to extend Magento
2. Preferences: replacing a class via di.xml
3. Why Preferences are problematic
4. Plugins (interceptors): the Interceptor Pattern
5. Before plugin: modifying arguments
6. After plugin: modifying the return value
7. Around plugin: full control (and risks)
8. Plugin ordering and conflicts
9. Plugin limits: what plugins can't do
10. Decision matrix: Preference vs. Plugin vs. Observer

One of the most common questions in Magento code reviews: "Should I use a Preference or a Plugin?" The answer is almost always Plugin, but why, and which type? This deep dive shows the exact differences, the internal mechanisms, and

Magento GraphQl Security/OWASP

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GraphQL Error Handling: Separating Business Errors, Transport Errors and Extensions

Maxim Mironjuk - February 28, 2025

GraphQL has no HTTP equivalent for business errors. Anyone who models business errors as resolver exceptions, fails to distinguish transport errors from network problems, and ignores extensions.category ends up with error handling that forces the frontend to react to heuristics instead of structure.

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PHPStan Level 8 for Magento ModulesSetup and Baseline

1. Why PHPStan brings so much value to Magento 2

PHPStan Level 8 for Magento Modules
Setup and Baseline