Tag: API Platform

Schema Generator 3: A Step Towards Redecentralizing the Web!

Posted on by Kévin Dunglas

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…

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Vulcain: HTTP/2 Server Push
 and the rise of client-driven REST APIs

Posted on by Kévin Dunglas

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…

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API Platform 2.5

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

Posted on by Kévin Dunglas

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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API Platform 2.4: MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Mercure, OpenAPI v3, CQRS with Symfony Messenger, HTTP/2 Push, improved React apps and more!

Posted on by Kévin Dunglas

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…

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Progressively enhance your Symfony 4 app using Vue, API Platform, Mercure and Panther (SymfonyCon)

Posted on by Kévin Dunglas

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…

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HTTP/2: speed up your apps and dispatch real time updates (Symfony and API Platform’s features announcement)

Posted on by Kévin Dunglas

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…

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