Are you a TYPO3 developer and want to improve the productivity and quality of your day-to-day work? In this article, You will find the most popular TYPO3 extensions that will help you with your TYPO3 project installation, TYPO3 template integration, and TYPO3 extension development.
Helpful TYPO3 tips, tricks, and extensions can improve your productivity. The TYPO3 community is very innovative and active to create add-ons to TYPO3 CMS like composer, console, extension builder, view-helper for fluid, etc. Here, I’ve tried to prepare a list of useful TYPO3 extensions, packages, and tools. Of course, all these extensions are short-listed based on the popularity and downloads (at TER & Packagist). In this article, I’m going to focus more to list out “development-related” TYPO3 extensions. Let’s explore!
TYPO3 at Server
List of TYPO3 tools that will help you at your server.
TYPO3 Server Compatibility
Hassle-free TYPO3 server compatibility check report
This repository contains one PHP file. Where a user can select the TYPO3 version and check the server compatibility with the selected TYPO3 version.
Adminer
Database administration tool 'Adminer'
Adminer is a lightweight alternative for the well-known tool phpMyAdmin. Adminer provides most of the functionality you need when dealing with a database.
TYPO3 Composer
The TYPO3 community loves composer, Here is the list of useful TYPO3 composer packages.
TYPO3 Composer Generator
Quick composer generator for your TYPO3 extension
Features are: Avoid Manual Composer.json, Don’t do manual JSON format, Write default TYPO3 configuration, Automatically get dependencies, One-click prepare, Download sample.
TYPO3 Composer Setup
Set up required entry points for TYPO3 web directory
This is a composer package that uses typo3/cms-composer-installers to generate entry points for the web directory instead of symlinking them. This means no symlinks to files are required any more, not even the symlinked autoload file inside the typo3/cms package.
TYPO3 Composer Auto Commands
Execute TYPO3 Console commands on 'composer install'
This is a composer package that aims to simplify running TYPO3 Console every time composer dump-autoload information, e.g. during a composer install run.
TYPO3 Console
Run your TYPO3 instance at the console with some powerful features.
TYPO3 CLI
TYPO3 command-line binary
TYPO3 core provides basic command-line interface features. It is possible to run TYPO3 CMS scripts from the command line. This functionality can be used to set up cronjobs, for example.
TYPO3 Console
A reliable and powerful command-line interface for TYPO3 CMS
TYPO3 Console provides a clean way to register commands and a sane way to call these commands through a command-line tool called typo3cms.
TYPO3 Console Plugin
Add-ons to Awesome TYPO3 Console
This is an installer plugin for helhum/typo3-console, to ease usage without the need to specify scripts in your root composer.json.
TYPO3 Extensions Development
During custom TYPO3 extensions development, the Following packages will help you to be more productive.
TYPO3 CMS Backend Styleguide
TYPO3 CMS Extension to test everything in the TYPO3 Backend
Welcome to the living Styleguide for TYPO3 CMS backend. Presents supported styles for TYPO3 backend modules.
TYPO3 Extension Builder
A tool to kickstart and maintain TYPO3 extensions
The Extension Builder helps you build and manage your Extbase based TYPO3 extensions.
It ships a graphical editor to build your domain model and generates most of the boiler-plate code necessary for you. This includes TCA, Models, Repositories, language files, and other things.
TYPO3 Autoloader
Extbase Autoloading Feature
Automatic components loading of ExtBase extensions to get more time for coffee in the company ;)
TYPO3 Security
TYPO3 is well-known for its robust security, Here are more security add-ons.
TYPO3 Secure Web
Set up secure TYPO3 web directory containing only public assets
This is a composer package that aims to create a web directory for TYPO3, which only contains the entry scripts and links to public assets.
TYPO3 Extensions Compatibility
Productive Analysis for your next TYPO3 upgrade projects
One of the only TYPO3 extensions which provides all the features like TYPO3 Extensions Compatibility Report, Notification of new update via Email, System overview report, Compatible with all major versions of TYPO3 from 4.x to 9.x.
TYPO3 Backup Plus
All-in-one TYPO3 Backup Solution
First-ever feature-rich TYPO3 backup solution with a manual and scheduled backup. Easy to use and configure. Backup your TYPO3 code, assets, database, etc to your favorite backup clouds/servers.
TYPO3 sudo mode
Double security for unintended backend actions
TYPO3 extension provides "sudo mode" to mitigate unintended modifications.
TYPO3 CMS Security
This extension provides basic security features for TYPO3 CMS.
This implementation is a proof-of-concept prototype and thus experimental development. Since not all planned features are implemented, this extension should not be used for production sites.
TYPO3 Fluid
For the TYPO3 integrator, the Following TYPO3 extensions will help you.
VHS: Fluid ViewHelpers
Popular Extension of TYPO3 Fluid
A collection of ViewHelpers to perform rendering tasks that are not natively supported by Fluid - for example, advanced formatters, math calculators, specialized conditions, and Iterator/Array calculators and processors.
Content Defender
Defend Your Content Elements
Define allowed or denied content element types in your backend layouts.
TypoScript
TypoScript is a centralized configuration for the TYPO3, Here are some useful TYPO3 extensions.
TypoScript Rendering
Simply Renders Your TypoScript
Can render a TypoScript path by URL, especially useful for Ajax dispatching
TypoScript 2 ContentElements
Render Your TypoScript as Content Element
typoscript2contentelement allows you to show the result of TypoScript (e.g. HMENU) as a content element - a simple thing.
TYPO3 Code Review
As an OpenSource TYPO3 developer, It’s our responsibility to make a better quality of TYPO3 code, Here are some tools to make sure ;)
TYPO3 Code Review Tools
7 Best TYPO3 Code Quality, Review & Lint Tools
Are you looking for good practices on TYPO3 code quality? Then, you are in the correct place. In this article, You will find helpful tips and tricks with TYPO3 code review tools and TYPO3 lint to achieve better TYPO3 code quality.
TYPO3 Extension Review with Sonarqube
Automatic Code Review of TER Extensions
Thanks to the Marketing Factory guys who did setup automation TYPO3 code review tool Sonarqube for TER (TYPO3 Extensions Repository).
TYPO3 Lints
TYPO3 Lints for PHP, TypoScript, Fluid, Yaml
Linting is the automated checking of your source code for programmatic and stylistic errors. It’s by using a lint tool (otherwise known as linter). A lint tool is a basic static code analyzer.
TYPO3 Deployment
As a modern TYPO3 developer, you should configure your TYPO3 projects with auto-deployment to save your time.
TYPO3 Surf
TYPO3 Surf is a deployment tool, suited for a wide variety of applications
The Surf package is a complete automated deployment tool. It is best used but by far not limited to deploy TYPO3 CMS and Flow applications. It's inspired by some features of Capistrano (thanks) concerning the Git workflow.
Deployer.org TYPO3
Deployment tool for TYPO3.
This package provides a deploy task for deploying TYPO3 CMS with deployer (deployer.org).
TYPO3 Deployer
Automate Your TYPO3 Deployment
Are you looking for automatic & modern TYPO3 Deployment? Then, you are in the correct place. In this article, You will learn the step-by-step guide TYPO3 deploy with CI/CD approach for beginners to intermediate TYPO3 developers.
Miscellaneous
Some of the useful TYPO3 extensions which do not fit to particular categories, here is the list ;)
Slug
Helps manage the URL slugs of your TYPO3 pages and custom records!
The Slug backend module is designed to help manage large amounts of slugs for pages and extension records. Currently, it provides a simple list for pages and custom records, which can be filtered with different parameters. Slugs can be edited and saved quickly and efficiently.
Static Info Tables
One of the oldest TYPO3 extension for information
Data and API for countries, languages, and currencies.
SASS compiler for TYPO3
Automatically compile SASS.
Compiles scss files to CSS files.
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