Symfony 6 workspace template for gitpod.io

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Note

These examples were written for Gitpod classic, which will shutdown shortly. Templates for the successor of gpt, can be found under this link.

Symfony 6 workspace template for gitpod.io

Open in Gitpod

What is Gitpod?

Gitpod is a cloud development environment: https://www.gitpod.io/

Available services

Some additional services are already added via docker-compose.yml but you can add more any time.

  • MySQL - Database
  • Mailpit - email testing tool for developers
  • Redis - In-Memory Database used mostly for caching
  • PhpMyAdmin - Webinterface for MySQL
  • Adminer - Webinterface for MySQL
  • PhpCacheAdmin - Webinterface for different caching systems like redis, memcached etc.

Note: Not all services are active per default, you can select active services via gpt services select

Installed Tools

  • GPT - An extendable Tool for web development with gitpod
  • NVM - Select the active nodejs version

Documentation

Informations

  • Add /phpinfo to the url of the frontend (https://8000-xxxxx.ws-xx.gitpod.io/) to show the current used php version, active modules and settings
  • Add /xdebuginfo to the url of the frontend (https://8000-xxxxx.ws-xx.gitpod.io/) to show the current xdebug settings
  • Add /adminer to the url of the frontend (https://8000-xxxxx.ws-xx.gitpod.io/) to open Adminer, an alternative to phpmyadmin
  • The installation routine of shopware can be found under .devEnv/gitpod/scripts/symfony/install_demo.sh

Changelog

14.10.2023

  • Updated everything to the latest version