API Platform - Kévin Dunglas

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

Posted on November 22, 2019September 26, 2021 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…

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 September 30, 2019September 2, 2020 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…

Symfony on steroids : Vue.js, Mercure, Panther (SymfonyLive Paris)

Posted on March 29, 2019September 26, 2021 by Kévin Dunglas

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,…