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…
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API Platform: A Framework for API-driven Projects (DevTalks Bucharest)
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,…
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,…
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…
HTTP/2, PHP and Symfony: a brief history of the protocol powering the web, and how to use it
Here are the slides I presented yesterday during the Paris Symfony Meetup. On the menu: a brief history of HTTP, how to use it with PHP (server and client-side) and how to push with Symfony 4. Learn more about Symfony’s HTTP/2 support in my in-depth presentation of the WebLink Component.
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 4: HTTP/2 Push and Preloading
A few months ago, I’ve contributed a new component to Symfony: WebLink. By implementing cutting edge web standards, namely HTTP/2 Server Push and W3C’s Resource Hints, it brings great opportunities to boost webapp’s performance. Thanks to Symfony WebLink, HTTP/2 (h2) servers are able to push resources to clients before they even know that they need them (think to CSS…