This article was peer reviewed by Craig Bilner and Dan Prince. Thanks to all of SitePoint’s peer reviewers for making SitePoint content the best it can be! An important part of writing rich internet applications is reacting to data changes. Consider the following quote by Guillermo Rauch, taken from his 2014 Braz...
I’m always yammering on about writing asynchronous PHP code, and for a reason. I think it’s healthy to get fresh perspectives – to be exposed to new programming paradigms. Asynchronous architecture is common in other programming languages, but it’s only just finding its feet in PHP. The trouble is that this...
As many of you know, Backbone.js is a well-known MV* framework. It’s hosted on GitHub and it gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existin...
In this tutorial, we’ll be taking a look at Ratchet, a PHP library for working with WebSockets. Let’s start by defining what WebSockets are. MDN says:WebSockets is an advanced technology that makes it possible to open an interactive communication session between the user’s browser and a server. With this API, y...
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