Tempest 3.0
Tempest 3.0 has been released with a new exception handler, PHP 8.5 as minimum requirement, improved CSRF protection using browser headers, database performance improvements, and closure-based validation rules.
Read more [tempestphp.com]
Symfony 20 year!
This year, Symfony celebrates its 20 year anniversary. Let’s dive into some statistics of years of making web development history.
Read more [wouterj.nl]
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No more down migrations
Database migrations have had a serious refactor in the newest Tempest release
Read more [tempestphp.com]
What sets Tempest apart as a framework for modern PHP development
Brent is doing some interesting stuff here.
Read more [tempestphp.com]
Turbo 8 is dropping TypeScript
DHH on why he's ditching TypeScript
Read more [world.hey.com]
Vanilla Rails is plenty
This post is about Rails, but applies to Laravel as well
Read more [dev.37signals.com]
The self-fulfilling prophecy of React
Some critical thoughts about React. I think the criteria used to determine if React is the right tool, can be used to think critical about your favourite framemework / piece of software.
Read more [joshcollinsworth.com]
A free Alpine.js video course
In this entirely free video course, you'll learn how to use Alpine.js, a minimal JS framework that I'm using myself on a couple of projects
Read more [codecourse.com]
Don't write your own framework
My colleague Brent shares a story to illustrate why you shouldn't write your own framework.
Read more [stitcher.io]
Design Principles of Vue 3.0
Evan You explains the principles behind the changes coming in Vue 3.0
Plans for the Next Iteration of Vue.js
In a new blogpost, Evan You, the creator of Vue, outlines the changes and new features coming to the next major release of Vue.
There are greatly improved tools that could enhance our workflow, and many new language features that could unlock simpler, more complete, and more efficient solutions to the problems Vue is trying to solve. What’s more exciting is that we are seeing ES2015 support becoming a baseline for all major evergreen browsers. Vue 3.0 aims to leverage these new language features to make Vue core smaller, faster, and more powerful.
Read more [medium.com]
Introducing Phoenix.LiveView
Phoenix is a framework written in Elixir. It's creator, Chris McCord, showcased an impressive new feature called LiveView at ElixirConf.
Here is some more background info on LiveView: https://leveljournal.com/why-phoenix-liveview-is-a-big-dealLiveView is an extension of standard Phoenix views that will automatically propagate updates to the browser anytime state changes that would impact that view (using the existing Phoenix channels infrastructure). Instead of sending a state change event down the wire that you have to process in JavaScript manually, LiveView sends down an updated HTML fragment, diffs it against the current DOM state, and makes the necessary mutations for you.
The Solo JavaScript Developer Challenging Google and Facebook
Wired.com published a interesting piece on Even You and Vue. It also contains some quotes by Taylor Otwell, the creator of Laravel.
The big reason for Vue's success, developers who rely on it say, is its simplicity. More companies want to build web applications that, like Google Docs, feel as snappy as a native application. But few actually build applications as complex as Facebook’s or Google’s. What developers often really want is a framework for building small, interactive web apps. Angular can be overkill for simple applications, while React has a steep learning curve even for experienced developers. Vue applies a more "layered" approach to building a framework.
Read more [www.wired.com]
Building a PHP Framework
My buddy Frederick Vanbrabant, who is currently looking for a new opportunity, recorded a cool video course on how to build a PHP framework using some popular components. Here's the playlist that contains all the episodes.
First Experiences with Symfony 4 & the Symfony Community
Getting to know another framework and community can be a daunting task. But in case of Symfony it proves not to be that hard. On his blog Matthew Setter shares his first steps into Symfony.
Recently, I decided to learn the basics of the Symfony (4) framework, so that I could better understand one of my client's applications, and provide better support to it. I never expected to use such a well-rounded framework. Nor did I expect to encounter such an engaged and supportive community. Here's the story.
https://www.matthewsetter.com/first-experience-with-symfony/
Introducing Stimulus: Basecamp's new JavaScript framework
Basecamp recently open source Stimulus, their new JS framework. It aims to make sprinkling some JavaScript on your page here an there very easy.
Stimulus is a JavaScript framework with modest ambitions. It doesn't seek to take over your entire front-end—in fact, it's not concerned with rendering HTML at all. Instead, it's designed to augment your HTML with just enough behavior to make it shine. Stimulus pairs beautifully with Turbolinks to provide a complete solution for fast, compelling applications with a minimal amount of effort.
https://github.com/stimulusjs/stimulus
DHH talks a bit on why and how they created it in this episode of the Ruby Rogues podcast.
Symfony 4: New Hope
In an article on his Medium blog, Jerzy Zawadzki wrote about the most important changes made in Symfony 4.
Internally, Symfony 4.0 is “just” Symfony 3.4 with removed depracations. But from outside there is a big leap forward. Most changes (from the installation process, directory structe through using bundles, to coding itself) were made to improve Developer Experience with the framework. Such system like Symfony, which can be used to create web apps as easily as to build other frameworks on top of it, must be complicated. But, as Symfony proves in new version, this complexity may be ‘hidden’ from the developer eyes.
https://medium.com/@zawadzki.jerzy/symfony-4-new-hope-dbf99dde91d8
Taylor Otwell on Laravel and Symfony
In a recent interview published on the Cloudways blog Taylor Otwell shares his thoughts on the similarities differences between Laravel and Symfony.
Both Laravel and Symfony are more rapid than building an entire PHP application from scratch. So, in that sense, they both allow rapid application development. However, Laravel does make strong efforts to have a very clean and productive working environment for building applications of all sizes. I think Symfony has also made efforts in this direction over the last few years with their “DX” initiatives and some of the more opinionated things they are doing with Symfony Flex.
Comparing Vue with other frameworks
Recently I stumbled upon a page in the VueJs docs where Vue is compared against all other similar frameworks. I'm impressed with the fact that they reached out to authors of the other frameworks to get well balanced comparison.
This is definitely the most difficult page in the guide to write, but we do feel it’s important. Odds are, you’ve had problems you tried to solve and you’ve used another library to solve them. You’re here because you want to know if Vue can solve your specific problems better. That’s what we hope to answer for you.We also try very hard to avoid bias. As the core team, we obviously like Vue a lot. There are some problems we think it solves better than anything else out there. If we didn’t believe that, we wouldn’t be working on it. We do want to be fair and accurate though. Where other libraries offer significant advantages, such as React’s vast ecosystem of alternative renderers or Knockout’s browser support back to IE6, we try to list these as well.
