Modern WordPress Software Engineering

Modern Software Engineering on WordPress

Perfect resources in order of quality:

Carl Alexander > Tag: WordPress
Tom McFarlin
Zac Gordon > JavaScript for WordPress
Josh Pollock
theAverageDev, specialized in Test-driven development by Luca Tumedei, author of wp-browser
Igor Benić

OOP in Wordpress

The Bible on Design Patterns is Refactoring.Guru and more specific to PHP would be also amazing DesignPatternsPHP resource.

Dependency Injection explained at PHP: The Right Way

Intro
- Why object-oriented programming is your next step as a WordPress developer
- The first thing you should learn from object-oriented programming
Practical hands-on
- Organizing your files in an object-oriented WordPress plugin. Not perfect suggestions, but reasonable basic principles.

Typical design patterns on WordPress

Basic PHP Design Patterns For WordPress
About using Service Containers aka Dependency Injection and amazing short explanation in Using A Service Container To Improve Your WordPress Code example. Same author on implementing the Repository Pattern in WordPress. Using Laravel’s Container In A WordPress Plugin
Singletons and their use in WordPress Solves: no easy way to get object instance back after, unless you store it as a global, which is far from ideal. Much more about them:
Singletons In WordPress: Good Or Evil?
Mediator pattern in WordPress

Amazing PDF books

E-books authored by Josh Pollock for Torque Magazine and sponsored by WP Engine.

The Ultimate Guide to Object-Oriented PHP for WordPress Developers

The Ultimate Guide to the WordPress REST API also by Josh Pollock

Webpack all the way

What Tool to Use: webpack vs Gulp vs Grunt vs Browserify ← Alligator.io

workflow automation tools like Gulp or Grunt are vital for every project that requires web application development. These tools can assist in improving software engineer productivity. Additionally, they are able to automate routine operations such as CSS preprocessing, image compression, etc. And webpack is great for bundling various files together into a dependency graph.

Gulp is more modern compared to Grunt. It does coding vs writing a configuration for Grunt

If you want to save time and use only one workflow automation tool, webpack is the best option in my opinion. Its biggest advantage is that you don’t need to configure everything from scratch.

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