Osm Admin: GitPod
2 years ago ∙ 2 minutes read
I waited for this day too long. Today, I've tried out GitPod, and made it work for a project based on Osm Admin.
2 years ago ∙ 2 minutes read
I waited for this day too long. Today, I've tried out GitPod, and made it work for a project based on Osm Admin.
2 years ago ∙ 2 minutes read
Today, I reiterated on what's left in this iteration, and finished the side menu view, and created a trivial home page for the admin area.
2 years ago ∙ 2 minutes read
After getting the main branch all-green (tests pass, CLI and UI works as expected), I decided that from now on, I'll keep it always green, and use feature branches for all major development.
Then, I started implementing the main menu of the admin area.
2 years ago ∙ 1 minute read
Yesterday, I created a template for new projects powered by Osm Admin.
This way, you can create and publish a project in minutes, just follow the README
. Yay!
2 years ago ∙ 3 minutes read
I came with an idea of much cleaner Osm Admin data class "markup", and more straightforward architecture, and I decided to give it a go in a separate experimental branch v0.2
, and to see if it's viable.
After three weeks of implementation effort, I can say that it is viable, and it's so much better! And it's not a completely new effort, I mostly copy code from v0.1
and some parts of osmphp/framework:old_v4
, and adapt it.
You can already define data classes using new markup, generate the database tables, and query it using new formula syntax. I really wanted to come with some UI working, but there wasn't enough time for that. It stays my priority for the next iteration.
2 years ago ∙ 2 minutes read
My current goal is to get some minimum Osm Admin user interface and API working - just for one property, one data type, one UI control type, and then improve.
And there is a lot of space for improvement. The main areas are listed in this document.
I'd really appreciate a helping hand, so if you are into this sort of things, DM me on Twitter.
2 years ago ∙ 4 minutes read
I feel that both attributes decorating data classes, and object model parsed from it are too complex.
Let's have a fresh look at Osm Admin. If I had to start from scratch, how would it be?
2 years ago ∙ 3 minutes read
After 3 days of intensive work, I've got dot syntax working!
Along the way, I refactored the query internals once again, which reminds me a heuristics saying that you've got to implement something three times to get it right :)
New query implementation uses the concept of formulas - SQL-like expressions used for selecting, filtering and sorting data. Currently, formulas are quite limited, but with time, they should be a really powerful feature.
2 years ago ∙ 1 minute read
I decided to support selecting, filtering and ordering by properties of a related object using dot syntax: product.price
, parent.level
. This syntax will automatically join the table that stored related objects.
I realized that implementing joins requires a better query model than my current naive wrapper around Laravel query. This article describes the new query model.
2 years ago ∙ 2 minutes read
This article is about running SELECT and INSERT queries on data objects stored in the database.
In short, use the query()
function. It runs on top of Laravel Query\Builder
. It handles the mapping of data class properties onto table columns, and initiates the computation of indexed properties.
Currently, you can only SELECT and INSERT, other operations are coming soon.
2 years ago ∙ 3 minutes read
Today, I implemented computation of indexed properties during insert. The implementation dictated some changes in indexed property definitions compare to the initial design, and how indexers are reflected into the data schema.
Also, I implemented a table query class working on the top of Laravel Query\Builder
. More about it next time, for now I'll review how indexed properties are computed during INSERT operation.
2 years ago ∙ 3 minutes read
I had two weeks full of meaningful, productive work. I started with sketching Osm Admin grid and form pages, and implemented a very basic, but working home page, and success/error messages. To enable that, Osm Framework now have extensible Blade templates, and a nice JavaScript solution for capturing user input into a modal dialog box, or into some picker component.
Then, I undertook a major refactoring of Osm Admin, including moving lots of pieces of code to their new places, stabilizing the underlying object model, rewriting database migrations and sketching future effort on data indexing. During this effort, I implemented generic object hydration and reflection over named subtypes.
I've already shared most of this information on Twitter, so if you are reading this, consider following me on Twitter and getting daily updates.
2 years ago ∙ 3 minutes read
It's often needed to compute, or index, data in database tables based on data in other tables.
This article is the first sketch of a consistent indexing solution.
2 years ago ∙ 3 minutes read
I've finished refactoring how Osm Admin stores data objects in the database. Also, in order to support multi-website, multi-vendor, multi-language applications, I've introduced the concept of scopes.
Most reasoning from the first version is still valid, so let's take a fresh look of what's changed.
2 years ago ∙ 3 minutes read
I developed dehydrate()/hydrate()
functions for a very practical need - storing the data class schema:
This article describes the information stored in the schema, and unit tests that I prepared in order to be sure that schema classes are property hydrated.
2 years ago ∙ 2 minutes read
I had two very productive weeks. #buildinpublic works wonders.
Most effort went into my new project, Osm Admin. I sketched how data classes look like, generated database tables from class attributes, and started working on the Admin UI. It's very fulfilling to see how an abstract idea gains shape.
2 years ago ∙ 1 minute read
As described in Migrations, most data objects of the same class will be stored in a database table.
But what about subclasses? In an e-commerce application, bags, dresses, and digital products, collectively known as subclasses, are all products stored in products
table, and they may have bad-specific, dress-specific or digital product specific properties that should also be stored there.
This article describes how subclasses are defined and stored in Osm Admin.
2 years ago ∙ 1 minute read
Different data classes have repeating structural patterns. For example, most data classes stored in database tables have the auto-incremented id
property. Use PHP traits to effectively introduce the same properties to different data classes over and over again.
2 years ago ∙ 2 minutes read
I partly implemented data schema migration. It takes data class definitions, and incrementally creates or alters underlying database tables.
The article below describes how schema migration works, and what's not implemented yet, but most probably will be.
Note. This topic is continued in the new article.
2021 ∙ August ∙ osm.software Website
2 years ago ∙ 1 minute read
Install PHP 8, MySql, Node, Gulp and ElasticSearch. Clone the project. Edit project settings. Finally, run few commands in the command line.
2 years ago ∙ 3 minutes read
New Osm Framework version comes with improved, configurable and easily
customizable Gulp script, modular NPM dependencies, standard page layout Blade
component and brand new README
. osm.software website
contains an easy-to-follow new project installation instruction.
3 years ago ∙ 1 minute read
The first osm.software blog articles have been written, edited and revised. Content changes are deployed in semi-automated way. The website got some SEO improvements, and now it scores 100% in Google Lighthouse.
2021 ∙ July ∙ osm.software Website
3 years ago ∙ 1 minute read
Today, osm.software reached an important milestone - 100% Lighthouse score.
2021 ∙ July ∙ osm.software Website
3 years ago ∙ 1 minute read
This article explains how to manage and assign blog categories.
3 years ago ∙ 1 minute read
Osm Framework introduced production mode and maintenance mode. osm.software website went live.
3 years ago ∙ 1 minute read
Osm Framework introduced JS controllers, and JS unit tests. osmcommerce.com website project was renamed to osm.software, it finalized the post rendering, and introduced a tool for checking broken links.
2021 ∙ June ∙ osm.software Website
3 years ago ∙ 9 minutes read
Readers of osm.software blog can search the blog for a specific phrase, and narrow down listed articles using multi-select layered navigation. Let's see how it works under the hood.
3 years ago ∙ 2 minutes read
osmcommerce.com (now osm.software) blog got multi-select layered navigation, category management, FontAwesome icons, Tailwind CSS Typography. Osm Core allows debugging accidental assignments of the computed properties.
2021 ∙ May ∙ osm.software Website
3 years ago ∙ 3 minutes read
This article explains how to write and publish blog posts.