Level 1

Become a certified Hubleto developer.

The first level of certification ensures that the certified developer knows basics about Hubleto development process, its architecture, built-in functionality and most commonly used software design patterns like, e.g. routing, controllers or views.

You will learn how to:

prepare the development environment

deploy Hubleto to customer's server

create custom apps

define models, views and controllers

install custom app with default data

Introduction

This document contains a training material for Hubleto Certified Developer training. It is a source of questions and answers for the certification programme.

To get a Level 1 certification, you shall pass the certification programme. Here you will find training materials and resources pass this programme.

Prerequisities

You shall have the following knowledge:

At least junior level of PHP, Javascript, SQL, HTML and CSS.
Optionally, junior level of React / Typescript - this is required only if a developer is going to implement react-based functionality.
Experience with composer - PHP’s package manager and npm - Javascript’s package manager.
Experience with setting up a local development environment - a webserver (Apache or Nginx) with PHP and SQL database (MariaDB or MySQL).
Good understanding of the MVC software design pattern.

Having this knowledge, a developer shall be able to configure his local development environment as described in this guide.

Resources

Before starting, check out these additional resources:

Lessons

Take following lessons to learn step-by-step topics covered by the Level 1 certification.

Lesson
About Hubleto	Start lesson
Starting the development	Start lesson
Hubleto Core	Start lesson
Hubleto Apps	Start lesson
Recapitulation	Start lesson

Webinars

We occassionally organize free webinars explaining Level 1 certification topics in a more detail and with practical examples. Webinars are divided into 9 sessions as describedn below. Follow our social media (website, LinkedIn, Reddit, ...) to get the actual webinars schedule.

Webinar #1: Introduction to Hubleto

What is Hubleto.
Install production ready Hubleto using Composer.
Overview of community apps.

Presentations from the webinar: Introduction to Hubleto.pdf, How to setup dev env.pdf, Overview of Hubleto apps.pdf.

Webinar #2: Custom App Development - backend basics

Create custom CarRental app.
Overview of Model and RecordManager concepts.
Create models (Car, RentalHistory) and their RecordManagers.
Overview of 1:N relations.

Webinar #3 Custom App Development - frontend basics

Overview of previous developments in custom CarRental app.
Overview of DescriptionAPI with practical example (describeTable).
Create controllers and views (Cars, RentalHistories).
Use built-in React UI components () in views.

Webinar #4: Custom App Development - fully functional CarRental app

Overview of previous developments in custom CarRental app.
Recapitulation of backend programming.
Recapitulation of frontend programming.
Feedback from developers.

Webinar #5: ReactUi basics

Overview of ReactUi library.
Using ReactUi in Twig.
Most commonlty used properties of .
Customizing table and form look&feel using DescriptionAPI.

Webinar #6: Models and their RecordManagers

Overview of Model and RecordManager concepts.
Definition of relations.
Built-in record-manipulation API (record/save, record/delete, ...).
Practical examples for belongsTo and hasMany relations.
Customizing prepareReadQuery().

Webinar #7: Description API

Overview of Description API, it's purpose and basic principles.
Configuration options for tables (describeTable).
Configuration options for forms (describeForm).
Configuration options for inputs (describeInput).

Webinar #8: Callbacks in models

Overview of available callbacks.
Practical example with CarRental app.

Webinar #9: Finalilzation of Level 1 certification

What we have learned?
Feedback from developers.
How to get the Level 1 certificate.