Jisse Reitsma
Jisse Reitsma is the lead developer at Yireo and Loki Checkout, and a well-known educator in the Magento ecosystem. He has trained countless Magento developers over the years and is a driving force behind numerous hackathons and community-driven developer events.
A three-time Magento Master, Jisse has spoken at Magento and developer conferences around the world, including MMNL, MMNYC, MMUK, MageTitans Greece & Manchester, MMUA, MMDE, MMBE, and MMPL. His work focuses on clean code, modular architecture, and sharing knowledge to elevate the entire Magento community.
2025-11-24
- 16:30 - 17:00
- 30 min
For years, Magento developers have struggled with building uiComponents in the Magento Admin Panel: The black-box-like architecture of uiComponent XML which refers to both PHP logic and KnockoutJS logic has driven many people crazy. How come something so common like building an admin grid or admin form has been made so difficult?
Jisse will show a new way in his presentation: For frontend purposes (among which the Loki Checkout) he created an open source library called "Loki Components" that allow Alpine.js components to easily linked to PHP-based tasks. And because this was already working solidly in the frontend, Jisse thought "why not migrate it to the backend as well"? The end-result is a new Loki Admin Components library with which you can create grids and forms, often with just a few simple lines of XML layout code. And if you want more, the API is simply enough to extend. Even better: It is way faster than regular UiComponents while it looks identical at first sight.
In his talk, Jisse will take you through the steps: To get started, to build more advanced grids and forms, show numerous examples, point out what is still in progress. Building admin forms & grids is difficult? No more