HTTP/2: speed up your apps and dispatch real time updates (Symfony and API Platform’s features announcement)

HTTP/2 can improve the loading time of webpages up to 2 times. Did you know that it’s very easy to optimize your Symfony applications to leverage the advanced features of this new protocol?

This talk also contains the announcement of 3 new PHP packages:

• Symfony Mercure Component
• Symfony Mercure Bundle
• Mercure integration in API Platform

Agenda:

• a historically contextualized presentation of the different versions of the HTTP protocol;
• a state of the protocol support in the PHP ecosystem;
• a guide explaining how to serve your PHP and Symfony apps with h2, using Nginx, Apache and Docker;
• many code samples showing how to use h2 to improve the loading time of your assets and APIs using the WebLink component and Twig
• examples of how to take advantage of the protocol using the curl and Guzzle clients
• the Mercure Protocol
• Mercure x Symfony
• Mercure x API Platform