diff --git a/source/_daily_emails/2024-02-27.md b/source/_daily_emails/2024-02-27.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..29f9ab6e --- /dev/null +++ b/source/_daily_emails/2024-02-27.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +--- +title: Building a design system in a few hours with Symfony +date: 2024-02-27 +permalink: archive/2024/02/27/building-a-design-system-in-a-few-hours-with-symfony +tags: + - softare-development + - symfony + - php + - podcast +cta: d7eol +snippet: | + Today, I started a design system with Symfony in a few hours, based on recent podcast episodes with Mark Conroy and Ryan Weaver. +--- + +[I recently spoke with Mark Conroy][mark], Director of Development at Annertech, on the Beyond Blocks podcast. +We discussed building something useful in a day and building design systems with web components. + +Inspired by that conversation, I spent this afternoon experimenting with web components and seeing how I could use them within a design system we're building, as I think they can solve a particular need we have. + +Following that, I thought I'd see how I could build my own design system and decided to do it with Symfony and see what I could achieve within a few hours. + +It was a great opportunity to take Symfony 7 for a spin and explore and test some things that [Ryan Weaver and I discussed in our episode][ryan], such as Symfony UX and Twig components. + +Each component is a Twig component with its own PHP class and Twig template, which is rendered when I visit its URL, and I can use the HTML-like `` syntax to include child components. + +You can [view the code on GitHub][repo], and it may be something I use and work on in the future. + +[mark]: {{site.url}}/podcast/11-mark-conroy +[repo]: https://github.com/opdavies/symfony-design-system +[ryan]: {{site.url}}/podcast/10-ryan-weaver-symfonycasts