I’m very excited to announce the immediate availability of API Platform 2.5! API Platform is a set of standalone server and client components for building and consuming REST (JSON-LD, Hydra, JSON:API…) and GraphQL APIs. The server components use PHP and Symfony while the client-side components (which support any Hydra-enabled web API, even the ones not…
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Mercure: Real-Time APIs for Serverless and Beyond
Here is the slide deck I presented during API Days SF 2019: Mercure is a protocol allowing to push data updates to web browsers and other HTTP clients in a convenient, fast, reliable and battery-efficient way. It is especially useful to publish real-time updates of resources served through web APIs, to reactive web and mobile…
Symfony on steroids : Vue.js, Mercure, Panther (SymfonyLive Paris)
Watch the video (in French)! Thanks to the new capabilities of the web platform (web components, Progressive Web Apps…) and the rise of modern JS libraries (Vue, React, Angular) almost all modern Symfony applications must leverage the frontend ecosystem. Symfony 4 embed many gems that make it easy to integrate modern JavaScript within the framework,…
Symfony and API Platform get “push” and real-time capabilities (Mercure protocol)
Mercure.rocks is a brand new protocol allowing to push data updates to web browsers and other HTTP clients in a convenient, fast, reliable and battery-efficient way. It is especially useful to publish real-time updates of resources served through web APIs, to reactive web and mobile apps. Both Symfony and API Platform now have an official…
API Platform 2.4: MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Mercure, OpenAPI v3, CQRS with Symfony Messenger, HTTP/2 Push, improved React apps and more!
I’m pleased to announce the immediate availability of API Platform 2.4 beta! This new version is a huge one, that comes with a large set of new features. For newcomers, API Platform is a full-stack framework to develop in a breath high quality API-driven projects. Among other (lower level) libraries, API Platform provides: a modular…
Progressively enhance your Symfony 4 app using Vue, API Platform, Mercure and Panther (SymfonyCon)
Watch the video! Thanks to the new capabilities of the web platform (web components, Progressive Web Apps…) and the rise of modern JS libraries (Vue, React, Angular) almost all modern Symfony applications must leverage the frontend ecosystem.Symfony 4 embed many gems that make it easy to integrate modern JavaScript within the framework, including the first…
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…
Upcoming conferences and workshops
I’ll speak at several conferences until the end of 2018. The topics will be varied: Panther, modern JavaScript, HTTP/2 and a brand new project to be announced (teasing: it’s written in Go, and it will be very helpful for serverless architectures!). See you at: Symfony Live London (September, 27th): Building API-driven apps with API Platform…
Introducing Symfony Panther: a Browser Testing and Web Scraping Library for PHP
Today, an introduction blog post to Panther was published on the Symfony blog! Panther is a new browser testing and web scraping library I contributed to the Symfony project, In the blog post, I showcase how to use Symfony, API Platform and VueJS together to create a small but modern app, and how to test…
API Platform 2.3: Major Perf Improvement, API evolution/deprecation, Better Dev Tools and Much More!
Today, the API Platform framework has reached 3k stars on GitHub, and it makes us very proud! To celebrate, I’ve just tagged the 2.3 version, that comes with a lot of amazing new features. Let’s discover them! For newcomers, API Platform is a modern open source framework for API-driven projects. It allows, in just a few minutes, to expose hypermedia…