Here the slide deck I presented during DevTalks Bucharest 2018. It covers the main features of the API Platform framework: we will install the framework, design an API data model as a set of tiny plain old PHP classes and learn how to get: A fully featured dev environment with Symfony Flex and React containers,…
Category: API Platform
Mastering the Symfony Serializer (PHP Tour)
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…
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,…
Be paid to improve API Platform during the Rails Girls Summer of Code
(french translation below) API Platform (the API-driven Open Source framework I created) has been selected for the Rails Girls Summer of Code program! The goal of the RCSOC is to improve the diversity in Open Source development. It allows groups of 2 women students to work full-time on a FOSS project (such as API Platform)…
API Platform 2.2: GraphQL, JSON API, React admin and PWA, Kubernetes instant deployment and many more new features
I’m glad to announce the immediate availability of API Platform 2.2 beta 1. This is a huge release that comes with a lot of exciting features including (but not limited too): GraphQL and JSON API support Symfony 4 / Flex integration API Platform Admin integration (built with ReactJS and Admin On Rest) ReactJS and Vue.js…
API Platform and Symfony: a Framework for API-driven Projects (SymfonyCon)
Here are the slides of my talk during the Symfony Con Cluj. You can rate this talk on joind.in. API Platform and Symfony: a Framework for API-driven Projects from Les-Tilleuls.coop Install API Platform. Design the API data model as a set of tiny plain old PHP classes. Instantly get: Fully featured dev environment with Symfony…
API Platform Admin 0.2: an admin in 1 minute for your API (React Progressive Web App)
The version 0.2 of the API Platform‘s admin component has just been released! This nice tool allows to automatically and dynamically build a fully featured administration interface (CRUD, pagination, relations…) for any API supporting the Hydra hypermedia vocabulary (more formats supported soon, see at the end of this article). 0 line of code required! API Platform Admin is…
Symfony 4 Run-through (Forum PHP 2017)
Symfony is a framework broadly recognized for its quality, reliability and ability to drive large enterprise projects. But for the last few years, Symfony has also gained many features to develop faster, and to refactor more easily. Symfony 4 offers major improvements in this area that will deeply change the way we build applications. Let’s…
Symfony Live London: API Platform – Full Stack Framework Resurrection
Here the video and the slides of my talk of today at Symfony Live London. Rate this talk. API Platform: Full Stack Framework Resurrection from Les-Tilleuls.coop Install API Platform. Design the API data model as a set of tiny plain old PHP classes. Instantly get: Fully featured dev environment with Symfony Flex and React…
Upcoming conferences
I’ll speak at a lot of conferences until the end of this year, mostly about API Platform and Symfony 4. Here is my schedule: September, 22: Symfony Live London API Platform – full stack framework reboot (english) We’ll start by creating a fully-featured API in just a few minutes with API Platform, Symfony and Doctrine. The…