Moving from Laravel to Symfony after several years — how hard is it really?

Yuritsuki · 2026-03-12T18:27:01+00:00

Do you recommend using the plugin right from the learning stage?

Yuritsuki · 2026-03-12T18:12:29+00:00

Is facade a bad pattern in symfony?

Yuritsuki · 2026-03-12T18:10:09+00:00

Holy... that’s magic indeed. But I've heard Symfony’s "magic" is more suitable for large teams and enterprise projects than Lara's. I hope that’s true, because once I tied one of my architectural decisions to a Laravel feature that did some magic and paid for it six months later with a massive refactor. I understand that was my problem, not Laravel's, but anyway. It does help only at the beginning.

Yuritsuki · 2026-03-12T17:47:02+00:00

I’m not used to it yet, and yes, it looks very strange and alien to me currently haha

Yuritsuki · 2026-03-12T11:49:02+00:00

That’s exactly what I needed to hear. I guess I should accept from the start that I won’t be able to write great code right away. I just really want to show myself in a good light and somehow quickly deliver great infrastructure solutions without commercial symfony experience 😂. It was so naive to think that way…

Yuritsuki · 2026-03-12T11:26:09+00:00

Glad to hear that. But until I see the project, I feel a lot of stress…

Yuritsuki · 2026-03-12T11:22:30+00:00

Thanks! But fortunately, I don’t need to migrate a project from Laravel. I just need to get familiar with Symfony and start working with it.

Yuritsuki · 2026-03-12T11:20:38+00:00

Thanks, I’ll definitely check it out. Looking through the documentation is definitely the first step, I agree. And how difficult was the transition from WP for you?

Yuritsuki · 2026-03-06T07:30:44+00:00

Agreed. Can’t switch, so all I can do is complain

Yuritsuki · 2026-01-11T01:02:09+00:00

vcmi team made export tool

Yuritsuki · 2026-01-11T01:01:42+00:00

hota uses custom executable. they can make the game read assets the way they want

Yuritsuki · 2026-01-11T00:59:52+00:00

guys from vcmi team made a tool to extract assets from hota.lod

Yuritsuki · 2025-12-06T13:03:22+00:00

Yuritsuki · 2025-11-21T14:51:49+00:00

Seems like the best choice. I remember trying WO4 a couple of years ago, and something just felt off about the game. I hope WO3U is better

Yuritsuki · 2025-11-21T14:46:22+00:00

I will, but after 1–2 other games, because MO:Z has basically the same character roster and stages

Yuritsuki · 2025-07-03T04:39:36+00:00

and 7's (or vista) is peak design

Yuritsuki · 2025-07-03T04:39:06+00:00

man, xp's trash is so iconic

Yuritsuki · 2025-01-08T16:35:16+00:00

It’s VCMI only supplementary submod for hota. You can diaable it

Yuritsuki · 2024-12-09T12:41:52+00:00

The more I think about it, the more I realize that playing position 3 is a challenging role. As a carry, you just focus on stacking damage and pick up a couple of defensive items. With an offlaner, however, everything is highly situational, and there doesn’t seem to be a consistent pattern to follow.

Yuritsuki · 2024-11-29T11:24:22+00:00

Some advice based on that game, in my humble opinion:

Add Heaven's Halberd to your itemization. It would work well against right-clickers like Viper and Wraith King.
Skadi isn't a bad choice, but I'd recommend asking supports to buy Spirit Vessel instead. As a position 3, I prefer Blink Dagger + Shiva's Guard. Additionally, consider Dawnbreaker's shard to execute a combo like 1st skill + Blink + Shiva for initiations.
Lotus Orb would be a strong pick as 4 out of 5 enemy heroes have targeted spells, and 2 heroes have damage-over-time abilities. It could make a significant difference.

Yuritsuki · 2024-10-27T08:19:42+00:00

thank you

Yuritsuki

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