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Show notes

Adobe Developer Live

• React Spectrum, React Aria, React Stately
• PWA Studio: Checkout + PageBuilder, Product Recommendations, internationalization
• DevExchange discussions
• SUT (Safe-Upgrade Tool)

Composer & patch utils

• https://github.com/AmpersandHQ/ampersand-magento2-upgrade-patch-helper
• https://github.com/vaimo/composer-patches/
• https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/magento-2-composer-patche/gfndadbceejgfjahpfaijcacnmdloiad 
• https://github.com/szeidler/composer-patches-cli

Other extensions / tools

• https://github.com/baldwin-agency/magento2-module-url-data-integrity-checker
• https://github.com/elgentos/regenerate-catalog-urls 
• https://github.com/fisheyehq/module-url-rewrite-optimiser 
• Jisse’s replacement of ElasticSearch under Magento 2.4 - https://github.com/yireo/Yireo_RemoveSearch

Lesser known Magento repositories; 

• https://github.com/magento/community-features/issues
  • New Config Product - select simples manually - https://github.com/magento/community-features/issues/208 - also note extension https://github.com/PiscesThankIT/ThankIT_ConfigurableWizard
  • Disable modules per environment - https://github.com/magento/community-features/issues/126
  • PHP 7.4 preloading support - https://github.com/magento/community-features/issues/98

Transcript

Peter Jaap: Hey, how are you? 

Jisse : Good, so this is the day after Adobe Developer Live, but yeah, we just had to admit that we didn't spend the whole night just attending that event, so you didn't do anything at all with it, right? 

Peter Jaap: No, I had my day off yesterday, so I was focused elsewhere, I didn't watch any presentation, but I got to use it. 

Jisse: Yeah, so actually, the program started at 3:30, I think Amsterdam time, so at that time, I wrapped up a meeting I was in and then just tuned in to the opening keynote, andI had a couple I needed to drop in and out of the whole program, but I think I got a couple of good points out of it. Yeah, so don't we develop a live, the first time actually that it was no longer just a Magento event, but also an Adobe event, so to me that's kind of like the first interesting point about the whole thing that was labeled Adobe developer live and then column Magento Commerce as in maybe there's going to be a lot more other Adobe developer lives, but then focused upon other areas of Adobe. Still, this one specifically was for Magento Commerce. 

Peter Jaap: Yeah of course

Jisse:  So I think there was the usual talk about the route map not necessarily, or at least I didn't hear about Magento 2.4.1 necessarily, it was just over all what kind of developments were happening. So, I listened to a couple of them, a couple of features were added to PWA studio or are going to be added to the PWA Studio, which is kind of my thing, Product Recommendations and Internationalization GraphQL stuff. It was kind of interesting to see that it was no longer just a Magento thing but also an Adobe thing, and I've been personally intrigued about the introduction of React Spectrum, so I heard about this over a few months ago. 

React Spectrum is a react vAriation of Adobe spectrum and Adobe Aria and Adobe Stately. Adobe Aria and spectrum are basically UI component libraries that allow developers to just focus on maybe the features instead of the UI, but its kind of feels like it's all related to the Adobe experience cloud so not necessarily related with Magento but still relevant. I think to anyone who wants to combine Magento and Adobe experience Cloud more and more. So yeah, to me, it was kind of interesting to see the direction instead of the technical details reading from that.

Peter Jaap: So, this all going to be part of the PWA studio or is it separate from it? 

Jisse: Well, that's a huge question mark for me, but my feeling is that the React spectrum is separate from PWA Studio. So, it's just a separate Library also developed by a separate department.

Peter Jaap: PWA Studio was implemented. 

Jisse : Well, that's one of the bigger questions because in road map of PWA studio, I noticed that there's a checkout coming, and then within this checkout, there's an integration with PageBuilder so that people can use PageBuilder to add in specific content types within the checkout system. I'm not sure how much of that PageBuilder is going to be integrated with experience Cloud, but I was under the impression that on the long run, this integration should be happening. So, PageBuilder picking up on logic and picking up on UI possibilities basically of Adobe Experience Cloud. So, with that, theoretically, React Spectrum and Aria would be part of the possibilities as well, so I dived into the technical part of the react spectrum and react stately as well, and to my impression, it's just another UI component library, it is just another set of collection of hooks. Still, then as a reactive developer, if you're into react, the next thing, it's nice to see that there's some kind of UI components library that you could just use and likewise react stately is all about hooks. I didn't look into the practical application of this yet but the other, theoretically, it could be combined with PWA Studio. 

Peter Jaap: All right, 

Reitsman: so I was kind of eager also to join the DevExchange discussions, but I think that only kickstarted really in the middle of the night, so, I saw a couple of other community members from Europe joining, So I believe they are still sleeping in today and then there was this other tool which I didn't see myself in a talk. But I saw some tweets about it, the Safe Upgrade Tool which is supposed to kind of like inventor eyes your current Magento system when you're looking for an upgrade, but well, that sounds fantastic that maybe there's a gold scan to check for whether the goal that you're running is compatible with the next Magento person that you want to upgrade to but that's kind of like hearsay because I didn't find anything on the web yet. I didn’t find anything concrete about this, so what exactly is the study all ab...