Posts tagged with webassembly

Client Side PHP

atymic.dev

Atymic (real name unknown to me), a developer hailing from Sydnex, wrote a blogpost on how he managed to get PHP running in the browser via WebAssembly.

I'm sure you've come across plenty of sites that use javascript on the front end, but what about using PHP as a client side language? How, you ask? Since PHP is C based, it's actually possible to compile a version that's able to run inside your web browser using web assembly.

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Frontend in 2017: The important parts

Kaelan Cooter, software engineer at LogRocket, wrote a good post on the state of JavaScript and it's ecosystem in 2017. I'm very curious to see how WebAssembly will mature in the next year. There seems to be a lot of potential there.

A lot has happened in 2017, and it can be a bit overwhelming to think about. We all like to joke about how quickly things change in frontend engineering, and for the last few years that has probably been true.

At this risk of sounding cliché, I’m here to tell you that this time it’s different.

Frontend trends are starting to stabilize — popular libraries have largely gotten more popular instead of being disrupted by competitors — and web development is starting to look pretty awesome.

In this post, I’ll summarize some of the important things that happened this year in the frontend ecosystem with an eye toward big-picture trends.

https://blog.logrocket.com/frontend-in-2017-the-important-parts-4548d085977f

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