Developers find Hyvä to make them happier and more productive compared to Magento's default frontend. Hyvä provides a simpler and faster development experience using modern technologies like TailwindCSS and AlpineJS. Survey results found developers implemented features 50% faster with Hyvä and rated their happiness higher. Key benefits included faster shops and development.

1. Successful projects with Hyvä
The Impact of Developer Happiness
April 29th 2021 – Magento Association Connect
Andreas von Studnitz – integer_net – @avstudnitz

2. Andreas von Studnitz
Co-Founder of integer_net
Magento developer, trainer, consultant since 2008
Twitter: @avstudnitz

3. Agenda
• About Hyvä
• Why Developer Happiness?
• How does Hyvä bring Happiness?

4. Questions?
• Use the „Q&A“
feature of Hopin

5. Hyvä

6. Hyvä – Motivation
• Default Magento frontend is slow
(RequireJS)
• PWA is not suitable for every shop
• We needed something better
customizable and less frustrating

7. Hyvä – Fact Sheet
• Built by Willem Wigman
• Started in 2020
• New Frontend for Magento 2
• Faster, Cleaner, Less Code
• TailwindCSS and AlpineJS
• Commercial Product
More info: https://hyva.io

8. Hyvä – Adoption
• Released early 2021
• > 50 partner agencies
• Slack with > 600 members
• Projects released: 4 at integer_net

9. Hyvä – Key Benefits
• Faster shop

10. Hyvä – Key Benefits
• Faster shop
• Faster development

11. Developer Happiness

12. “
If you do invest in the happiness of
your developers, they will pay it
forward. Not only by being efficient
and by contributing better code, but
by becoming truly devoted to the
company and its goals.
Oren Toledano
https://swimm.io/blog/2020-08-25-what-every-
manager-must-know-about-developer-happiness/

13. Happy developers…
• are more loyal to their company
• are more efficient
• write better code
• infect others with their good mood

14. Unhappy developers…
• leave
• aren‘t as effective
• don‘t care for code quality as much
• infect others with their bad mood

15. The business side
Happy developers
• write better software
• make managers and clients happy
• earn their company more money

16. How to make
developers happy?

17. What developers need to be happy
• Time to focus
• Time to relax
• Flexibility
• Good gear
• Make progress

18. What makes developers unhappy?
• Wasting time
• Having to fix bugs they didn‘t cause
• Not having full control
• Magento UI Components

19. What makes developers unhappy?
• Wasting time
• Having to fix bugs they didn‘t cause
• Not having full control
• Unnecessary complexity

20. Survey results
20 participants from the Hyvä slack channel

21. Time to implement
50% or less 75% 100% 150% 200% or more

22. Hyvä compared to Magento default
• “Light-weight, small tech stack“
• “Simplicity“
• “It's blazing fast“
• “Modern tech stack... jQuery bleh!”
Compared to Luma, what aspects of Hyvä
do you like more?

23. Hyvä compared to Magento default
• “Inline JS“
• “The CSS clutter in the HTML markup”
• “Lack of third party module support”
Compared to Luma, what aspects of Hyvä
do you like less?

24. How would you rate your personal happiness
while working with these systems?
Not happy at all Very happy

25. How important are these characteristics to finish
a Hyvä project successfully and effectively?
Not important at all Very important

26. “
Since I prefer not to force
customers to get better devices in
order to accommodate PWA, I find
Hyva as being the platform that
Magento should have built from
the beginning.
Victor Chiriac
MAGE CHECK

27. “
Hyva not only contributes for a
better Magento front-end
experience and performance, but
will also put Magento again on top of
the chosen technologies if widely
adapted. Arjus Dashi

28. “
Hyvä has finally brought the
modern web to Magento. We're
building faster e-commerce sites in
less time, fewer bugs and actually
having a good time doing so!
Javier Villanueva
Media Lounge

29. “
Being able to focus on making
progress rather than fighting with
Magento's archaic frontend stack
is a game changer.
Ben Crook
Space 48

30. Summary

31. Developers working with Hyvä like it
Simplicity is key
Happy developers pay off

32. Thank you!
Any questions?
avs@integer-net.de
@avstudnitz
@integer_net
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