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As you might already know containers are a huge help if not a necessity when developing software. They help isolate applications from their underlying infrastructure and help reproduce the same environments regardless of the underlying operating system (also called portability). Docker is a set of platforms as service products that use OS-level virtualization to deliver software in containers.

In this tutorial we are going to show you how to dockerize a Symfony project using Docker, this docker was configured for Symfony…

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If you love Linux OS and its ecosystem but you always find yourself with a Windows OS and virtualization or dual boot never gave you the full experience or performance, Microsoft brought the best of both worlds. We were very excited when Microsoft announced WSL2 in 2019. And we believe it to be the best web development setup.

WSL stands for Windows Subsystem for Linux, which is a compatibility layer for native Linux environments within windows. Its first version WSL1 was…

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Git is a distributed version control system, which means you can work locally, then share or “push” your changes to a remote repository or server. like GitHub, BitBucket and GitLab.

GitLab offers services that allow hosting projects on a remote repository and it also has additional features (managing, sharing, documenting, bug tracking …) to help SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) and CI/CD (Continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment).

Why we use GitLab

As mentioned before there exists other web-based remote repositories servers. …

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As an Atlassian explained in their tutorial:

Git hooks are scripts that run automatically every time a particular event occurs in a Git repository. They let you customize Git’s internal behavior and trigger customizable actions at key points in the development life cycle.

Git hooks are scripts that Git executes before or after events such as commit, push, and receive. Git hooks are a built-in feature — no need to download anything. Git hooks are run locally.

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The purpose of this article is to create a manual to git with a set of rules and strategies that we share to boost productivity and avoid confusion.

Git is software for tracking changes in any set of files, it is mainly used for coordinating work among programmers collaboratively developing source code during software development. Generally speaking, Git is a distributed version control system (DVCS), or peer-to-peer version control system, as opposed to centralized systems like Subversion.

When you install git…