Helpful development tools

The Helpful development tools plugin by Friends of Shopware assists developers with building, analyzing, and debugging plugins and themes in Shopware 6. Designed specifically for local development and testing environments, it provides essential helpers to streamline development workflows.

Key capabilities include rendering Twig includes and template blocks as HTML comments in the Storefront source code, making it easy to identify and navigate template hierarchies. The extension also deactivates the Twig cache, ensuring that template edits take effect immediately without manual cache clears.

Additionally, the extension provides Twig variable inspection within the Symfony Profiler Twig tab and overrides the storefront error handler to display detailed error traces. Specific blocks and patterns can be customized or excluded using Symfony configuration files.

Important Notice

This plugin is intended strictly for local development, testing, and staging environments. It should not be installed or activated on live production systems.

Key Features at a Glance

• Displays Twig includes and blocks as HTML comments in Storefront templates.
• Disables the Twig cache for faster frontend development iterations.
• Inspect Twig variables directly in the Symfony Profiler Twig tab.
• Bypasses default storefront error handling for detailed error output.
• Configurable block blacklist via Symfony configuration.
• Open-source developer extension maintained by Friends of Shopware.

Open Source and License Notice

This plugin is based on the open-source project Helpful development tools by Friends of Shopware and is distributed through our platform. Unless stated otherwise, this plugin is provided under the terms of the MIT License as declared in the project's composer.json.

Copyright (c) Friends of Shopware

The software is provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, to the extent permitted by applicable law. The terms of the MIT License shall prevail. The project repository can be found at: https://github.com/FriendsOfShopware/FroshDevelopmentHelper.