Here are the slide deck from the talk I gave this morning for AFUP Day 2021! And here is the video (in French): Google recently announced that it will remove Server Push support from its flagship browser. Server Push is a technology that is part of the HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 standards. Server Push is designed…
Category: Symfony
Symfony UX Turbo: Do You Still Need JavaScript?! (SymfonyWorld)
Hotwire Turbo is a tiny library recently introduced by DHH (the creator of Ruby on Rails) allowing to have the speed of Single-Page Apps without having to write any JavaScript! As part of the Symfony UX initiative, I’m very excited to announce the immediate availability of Symfony UX Turbo: the official integration of Turbo in…
Schema Generator 3: A Step Towards Redecentralizing the Web!
I just released API Platform Schema Generator version 3! It’s a command-line tool, part of the API Platform framework, that instantly generates a complete PHP data model (classes, enumerations, ORM mapping, validation rules, web API definitions, PHPDoc…) from RDF vocabularies and ontologies. RDF vocabularies are commonly used to define web-scale (Schema.org), industry-wide (The NASA Air…
API Platform 2.6: PHP 8 support, Next.js and Nuxt.js app generator, Caddy server, ActivityPub and much more!
During my talk at SymfonyWorld, I announced the immediate availability of API Platform 2.6! Try it now! Version 2.6 is the result of more than one year of work and hundreds of commits. It contains a huge list of new features, checkout the change logs (core library, distribution) for the full list. In this blog…
Say Hello to Mercure 0.10!
I’m very excited to announce the immediate availability of the version 6 of the Mercure Internet Draft as well as of the version 0.10 of the reference implementation! Mercure is a real-time protocol built on top of Server-sent Events and leveraging HTTP/2+. It allows to push messages to JavaScript webapps, mobile apps or IoT devices…
Vulcain: HTTP/2 Server Push and the rise of client-driven REST APIs
Watch a longer video (English)!Watch a French version. Over the years, several formats have been created to fix performance bottlenecks of web APIs: the n+1 problem, over fetching, under fetching… The current hipster solution for these problems is to replace the conceptual model of HTTP (resource-oriented), by the one of GraphQL. It’s a smart network…
Mercure – Real-Time for PHP Made Easy (Forum PHP)
Yesterday at Forum PHP 2019 I presented how easy it is to create real-time apps using PHP (among other languages) and the Mercure protocol. I also introduced the shiny and new Mercure website (designed by Laury S.)! A special thanks to Eric Comellas who jumped on stage to explain how iGraal uses Mercure on a…
API Platform 2.5: revamped Admin, new API testing tool, Next.js and Quasar app generators, PATCH and JSON Schema support, improved OpenAPI and GraphQL support
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…
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…