Distributing PHP applications is quite complicated. For instance, to run a Symfony project in production, a web server, the PHP engine, and the appropriate PHP extensions need to be installed. Their versions and configurations must be compatible with the app. Because PHP is an interpreted language, the application source code must also be available. Composer…
Mercure, Braid, PREP… news about subscribing to HTTP resource updates
Introduction For 32 years now, the venerable HTTP protocol has been at the heart of the Web. This protocol enables “resources” (anything that can be named can be a resource, but these are often documents) to be retrieved from a server using their unique identifier: their URL. Since 1991, the Web has exploded in popularity,…
Webperf: Boost Your PHP Apps With 103 Early Hints
Google Chrome, Firefox, Caddy, and Apache now support a new HTTP status code: 103 Early Hints. Since version 6.3, Symfony also supports 103 responses, and FrankenPHP also supports it natively. This new, rather unusual type of response has a single objective: to speed up the loading time of your websites and applications by allowing the…