Founder of Les-Tilleuls.coop (worker-owned cooperative). Creator of API Platform, FrankenPHP, Mercure.rocks, Vulcain.rocks and of some Symfony components.
Compressing HTTP responses can significantly improve the performance of your PHP and Symfony applications. But you must still navigate the jungle of standards and formats. In this presentation, we’ll discover how HTTP compression works, the different formats supported by modern web browsers (deflate, gzip, Brotli, and the brand-new Zstandard), and how to use them correctly….
We recently introduced the AssetMapper component and Symfony UX to make the most of the web platform and reduce the amount of JavaScript code to the absolute minimum. This “radically simple” approach is generally the most efficient, and should be the go-to method for most new Symfony applications. However, API-based, JavaScript-heavy applications are still inevitable…
Distributing PHP applications is quite complicated. For instance, to run a Symfony project in production, a web server, the PHP engine, and the appropriate PHP extensions need to be installed. Their versions and configurations must be compatible with the app. Because PHP is an interpreted language, the application source code must also be available. Composer…