The Symfony Serializer Component exists since the very beginning of Symfony 2. Years after years, it gained a lot of new features useful to transform various data formats to PHP structures and the opposite. It is also a foundation block of API Platform and a first-class citizen in FOSRest. Let’s dive into this component. We…
Author: Kévin Dunglas
REST vs GraphQL: illustrated examples with the API Platform framework (PHPTour/SymfonyLive)
GraphQL is an increasingly popular alternative to REST architectures for building web APIs. The query language promoted by Facebook has undeniable advantages: retrieve exactly what the client need, limitation of the number of queries, strong typing, powerful and extremely well thought out syntax… However, it also suffers from often underestimated problems including HTTP cache, logs,…
#CoopLab project: A video series about cooperatives and self-management I’m featured in
I’ve been interviewed along with other cooperatives founders form all across Europa in a video series published by the #CoopLab project. I present in depth the democratic and social-equity principles behind Les-Tilleuls.coop, a self-managed company, 100% owned by its employees, I cofounded 6 years ago. I explain how we grew from 3 to 25 while…