Today, an introduction blog post to Panther was published on the Symfony blog! Panther is a new browser testing and web scraping library I contributed to the Symfony project, In the blog post, I showcase how to use Symfony, API Platform and VueJS together to create a small but modern app, and how to test…
API Platform 2.3: Major Perf Improvement, API evolution/deprecation, Better Dev Tools and Much More!
Today, the API Platform framework has reached 3k stars on GitHub, and it makes us very proud! To celebrate, I’ve just tagged the 2.3 version, that comes with a lot of amazing new features. Let’s discover them! For newcomers, API Platform is a modern open source framework for API-driven projects. It allows, in just a few minutes, to expose hypermedia…
API Platform: A Framework for API-driven Projects (DevTalks Bucharest)
Here the slide deck I presented during DevTalks Bucharest 2018. It covers the main features of the API Platform framework: we will install the framework, design an API data model as a set of tiny plain old PHP classes and learn how to get: A fully featured dev environment with Symfony Flex and React containers,…
Mastering the Symfony Serializer (PHP Tour)
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…
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,…
#CoopLab project: A video series about cooperatives and self-management I’m featured in
I’ve been interviewed along with other cooperatives founders form all across Europa in a video series published by the #CoopLab project. I present in depth the democratic and social-equity principles behind Les-Tilleuls.coop, a self-managed company, 100% owned by its employees, I cofounded 6 years ago. I explain how we grew from 3 to 25 while…
Be paid to improve API Platform during the Rails Girls Summer of Code
(french translation below) API Platform (the API-driven Open Source framework I created) has been selected for the Rails Girls Summer of Code program! The goal of the RCSOC is to improve the diversity in Open Source development. It allows groups of 2 women students to work full-time on a FOSS project (such as API Platform)…
API Platform 2.2: GraphQL, JSON API, React admin and PWA, Kubernetes instant deployment and many more new features
I’m glad to announce the immediate availability of API Platform 2.2 beta 1. This is a huge release that comes with a lot of exciting features including (but not limited too): GraphQL and JSON API support Symfony 4 / Flex integration API Platform Admin integration (built with ReactJS and Admin On Rest) ReactJS and Vue.js…
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…