Front-end frameworks are great. They abstract away much of the complexity of building a single-page application (SPA) and help you organize your code in an intelligible manner as your project grows. However, there’s a flip side: these frameworks come with a degree overhead and can introduce complexity of their own. T...
This article compares the major differences between the the original AngularJS and Angular 2+. If you’re currently stuck with an AngularJS project and not sure whether you should make the jump, this article should help you get started. In recent years, we’ve seen Angular grow tremendously as a framework and as a pl...
On the Masonry website, we read that Masonry is …a JavaScript grid layout library. It works by placing elements in optimal position based on available vertical space, sort of like a mason fitting stones in a wall.Bootstrap is one of the most widely adopted, open-source, front-end frameworks. Include Bootstrap in...
Symfony Flex is a modern replacement for the Symfony Installer, and not the name of the next Symfony version. As the intro text says:Internally, Symfony Flex is a Composer plugin that modifies the behavior of the require and update commands. When installing or updating dependencies in a Flex-enabled application, Symf...
I have learned a few tricks when writing Zend Expressive modules that I want to share with you. Please follow the previous post first to set up a proper working environment. I explained how to install and configure Zend Expressive with Doctrine, Gulp, and an abstract reflection factory – it’ll take a total...
If you’ve ever done a Zend Framework quick start, you’ve probably never worked in Zend Framework. The quick start has historically been anything but quick, and it’s easy to lose interest and move on to the next thing. Zend Expressive greatly improves upon this experience with the wizard driven compos...
There is no such thing as disconnected information, no matter where you look – people, events, places, things, documents, applications and the information about them is all heavily connected. As the volume of data grows, so does the number and dynamicity of its connections. And if you’ve tried in the past t...
Laravel 5.5 will require PHP 7.0+. For the features this modern PHP version brings, please see our recap.Laravel 5.5 will also be the next LTS (Long Term Support) release. This means bugfixes for two years and three years of security updates. That was also the case with Laravel 5.1, but its two-year window of bug fix...
Component-based libraries or frameworks such as Vue have given us the wonderful ability to create reusable components to be spread throughout their respective application, ensuring that they are consistent, and (hopefully) simpli...
Twig is a template engine for PHP. But isn’t PHP itself a template engine? Yes and no! Even though PHP started as a template engine, it didn’t evolve like one, and while we can still use it as one please tell me which version of “Hello world” you prefer: <?php echo "<p> Hello " . $na...
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