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Symfony UX makes Symfony a Full Stack Framework (again)

It's common to call the Symfony framework a Full Stack Framework. This goes back to the days of it providing everything on the server side, from templating with Twig to data persistence by integrating the Doctrine ORM. …


Benchmarking PHP 8.0 and 7.4 on Symfony 5.2

The PHP 8.0 is scheduled to be released on November 26 2020, soon to be followed by the latest version of the Symfony framework 5.2. This is a quick round of benchmarks done on the latest release of both projects. It's …



Inlining critical CSS for Symfony apps

Inlining CSS is a technique that allows for improved first page load speed experience. In short you serve a snippet of your full CSS that is required to view the part before the fold, visible in the view port on load. T…



Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) PHP version

The Ubuntu Long Term Support (LTS) version, 20.04 AKA Focal Fossa was released in April 2020. This release has the PHP version 7.4 included by default. This is the last version of PHP 7.x series before the launch of PHP…