Shopware6 Best Practices

What it does

This skill provides a comprehensive guide to Shopware 6 development best practices, specifically designed for AI agents assisting agency developers. It contains 77 rules across 22 categories, prioritized by impact, and is intended to guide automated refactoring and code generation tasks within the Shopware 6 ecosystem (version 6.6+). The skill leverages official documentation and community-established best practices to ensure high-quality development.

When to use it

This skill is helpful when:

• Developing custom Shopware 6 plugins.
• Creating or modifying Store API or Admin API endpoints.
• Working with the Data Abstraction Layer (DAL).
• Implementing event subscribers and decorators.
• Writing database migrations.

Key capabilities

• Provides 77 development rules across 22 categories for Shopware 6.
• Rules are prioritized by impact (CRITICAL, HIGH, MEDIUM-HIGH, MEDIUM) to guide automated actions.
• Categorized best practices cover areas like plugin architecture, API development, performance optimization, security, and testing.
• Uses prefixes (plugin-, custom-, perf-, etc.) to identify rule categories.

Example prompts

• "What are the best practices for developing a Shopware 6 plugin?"
• "How should I implement database migrations in Shopware 6?"
• "Give me guidelines on optimizing performance when using caching in Shopware 6."

Tips & gotchas

• This skill is specifically tailored to Shopware 6.6+ versions.
• The rules are prioritized; focus on "CRITICAL" and "HIGH" priority items first for maximum impact.
• Consider the prefixes associated with each rule category when seeking specific guidance (e.g., plugin-architecture).