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Save the Web: Decentralize!

The web was designed to serve humanity, to enable knowledge sharing, for friendship among people.But data and services centralization by the Tech Giants have completely perverted it. Centralization causes major threats to our societies: mass surveillance, censorship, vote rigging, opponents arrests , advertising tracking. The situation is such that the founding fathers of the web,…

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…

Mercure: Real-Time APIs for Serverless and Beyond

Here is the slide deck I presented during API Days SF 2019: Mercure is a 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…

Using Next.js and Material UI Together

Next.js is a convenient and powerful framework for React. Its main benefit over using React directly is its transparent support for Server-Side Rendering.Material UI is a very popular set of React components implementing Google’s Material Design guidelines. Both libraries are impressive, but there are some tricks to know to make them playing well together. Bootstrapping…

Upcoming conferences: AFUP Day, Web2Day, API Platform Meetup and more!

During the spring I’ll speak at several tech events about my projects Mercure (Go), API Platform (PHP, server-side and JS, client-side) and Symfony Panther (PHP/WebDriver): AFUP Day, May 17th in Lille Discover Symfony Panther, a brand new end-to-end testing tool using real web browsers for Symfony and PHP. API Platform pre-Web2day meetup, June 3th in…

React ESI: Blazing Fast SSR

React ESI is a super powerful cache library for vanilla React and Next.js applications, that can make highly dynamic applications as fast as static sites. It provides a straightforward way to boost your application’s performance by storing fragments of server-side rendered pages in edge cache servers. It means that after the first rendering, fragments of…

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,…

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