If you want your online store to survive in today’s digital race, it’s super important to have a really good website, both in terms of content and performance. Having a slow or unresponsive website might cause people to give up, ultimately making your sales suffer.
A silent performance bottleneck for your website could be the codebase itself. It’s vital to optimize it using the best coding practices.
But how?
To resolve your issues with code maintainability, we organized an exclusive webinar on 20 September 2023, on the topic “Polish Magento Code Quality for Lasting Performance and Maintainability”.
Our speaker, Sandesh Shivakumar, with more than 4 years of hands-on eCommerce experience and an official Adobe Commerce Development certification, is one of Codilar’s go-to coding experts. In 45 minutes, he highlighted some of the frequently overlooked coding errors committed by both novice developers and seasoned coders alike. He also provided insights into the tools that can help identify and rectify these issues, offering valuable guidance on their prevention.
Webinar Key Takeaways
- Key Code Quality Issues
- Significance of following appropriate coding standards and guidelines
- Significance of maintainable code
- Tools and techniques for code assessment, including static assessment and automated testing
- Refactoring complex or outdated code
Here’s Why the Webinar Recap is a Must-See
Throughout the webinar, Sandesh emphasized the critical role that optimized code plays in enhancing Magento’s performance. Not only does it significantly improve the readability and maintainability of your code, but it also injects a powerful boost into your store’s overall performance and scalability.
Here’s a snapshot of the benefits you can reap:
- Adaptability to Latest Features: Optimized code allows your store to seamlessly integrate the latest features and updates, staying ahead in the eCommerce game.
- High Performance: Expect lightning-fast website speed and reduction in bugs, delivering a flawless shopping experience to your customers.
- Long-term Savings: By investing in maintainable code, you’re setting the stage for easier future feature additions and lower maintenance costs.
- Collaboration and Scalability: Maintainable code promotes collaboration among development teams and scales effortlessly with your project’s growth.
So, in order to attain the highest level of code excellence, Sandesh highlighted critical factors like:
- Code Quality Issues
Ensure to address issues like code redundancy, usage of core PHP functions, usage of Magento SQL queries, and looping of queries. Ignoring these concerns can severely impact your store’s performance, making it more prone to security vulnerabilities.
- Coding Standards and Guidelines
Following systematic coding standards and guidelines makes your code more readable and understandable, enabling consistency across all areas where the code is deployed. It also promotes collaboration as other developers working on your site can understand each piece of code running in your backend, enabling them to contribute to improving your code quality.
- Code Documentation
Encourage developers to document their code with relevant comments, making it more accessible to all users.
- Dividing code into short functions
Instead of writing long, convoluted code, divide it into small functions to enhance readability.
Take a look at our blog on Magento code audit to swiftly identify areas in your code that need a quick fix.
In addition, Sandesh introduced some of the most commonly used tools and techniques like PHP_CodeSniffer, PHP Mess Detector, and the SonarLint plugin to help developers analyze code in the development phase itself with suitable recommendations.
Finally, the webinar came to a close with an interactive Q&A session, reflecting its thought-provoking, insightful, and engaging nature.
So, if you haven’t attended the webinar yet, we’ve got you covered!
Check out our webinar recap here.
Don’t miss your chance to boost your store performance to unimaginable heights with optimized code.
