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Random things on PHP, Symfony and web development
The PHP community has been buzzing about all the significant releases such as PHP 7, Symfony 3 and Drupal 8 in 2015. With improved userland application frameworks, better performance and lower memory usage PHP is about to be better than ever.
Yet the world is changing and maybe PHP shouldn't (or can't) even try to keep up with the Joneses.
Heavyweight corporate IT giants such as Microsoft, IBM and Oracle are making significant investments in Node.js and JavaScript. It's becoming the latest technology in something often though of as black magic: Enterprise Integrations
Previously I wrote about Web Components standards and polyfills and how they'll finally bring us closer to a web build with reusable and isolated components. Rather than use those I thought I'd go ahead and create a web component with an alternative technology: Riot.js
As more and more processing is moving over to the client side you're more likely than ever to need to expose your back end resources via an API. The top of mind is application data, but you'll likely need to get endpoint URLs and translations as well. Or maybe you don't, but you should - manual maintenance is laboursome and error prone.