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…
Category: Talks
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,…
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…
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 Live London: API Platform – Full Stack Framework Resurrection
Here the video and the slides of my talk of today at Symfony Live London. Rate this talk. API Platform: Full Stack Framework Resurrection 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 Flex and React…
Upcoming conferences
I’ll speak at a lot of conferences until the end of this year, mostly about API Platform and Symfony 4. Here is my schedule: September, 22: Symfony Live London API Platform – full stack framework reboot (english) We’ll start by creating a fully-featured API in just a few minutes with API Platform, Symfony and Doctrine. The…
Dive Into Symfony 4 (slides)
Here are the slides I presented yesterday during the Lille’s Lille’s Symfony meetup: Symfony 4 is all about making the developer life easier. You liked using SF for large and robust apps, you’ll love using it for your next MVP, prototype or small project. This presentation was followed by a live coding session (not recorded, unfortunately).
Upcoming conferences and meetups: Web2Day, ChtiJS and sfPot Lille
I’ll speak at some conferences in June: I’ll present API Platform and its new client-side React tools at the ChtiJS meetup of tomorrow in Lille, France. I’ll do the same presentation Thursday, June 8 in Nantes during the Web2Day conference I’ll present some new features of Symfony 4 (including Symfony Flex) at the next Lille’s sfPot in Thursday, June 22 (event…
API Platform 2.1: when Symfony meets ReactJS (Symfony Live)
Slides and videos of my talk during the Symfony Live Paris 2017. Rate this talk on joind.in! API Platform 2.1: when Symfony meets ReactJS (Symfony Live 2017) from Les-Tilleuls.coop Learn how to use API Platform and Symfony to create super easily rich web and mobile applications relying on React (JS) for their presentational layer. In…