Symfony and Asset Management

The Standard Edition of the Symfony2 Framework has relied on a PHP asset management framework called Assetic. It has been around for quite a few years now and continues to serve static assets such as packaged CSS and JavaScript files. But is it relevant any longer?

Written by Jani Tarvainen on Sunday October 4, 2015
Permalink - Tags: symfony, gulp, bower, assetic, puli, webpack

BigPipe and the Symfony Framework

The Drupal 8 development team is doing great improvements to the product regarding HTTP caching. With validation tags, contexts and so on it feels familiar to people working with Symfony2 framework and the FOSHttpCacheBundle.

Another interesting addition is an adaptation of Facebook's BigPipe rendering strategy, which downloads HTML snippets in parallel for improved load times. Symfony2 as a HMVC framework can load bits asynchronously, but there is room to improve.

Written by Jani Tarvainen on Saturday September 26, 2015
Permalink - Tags: esi, drupal, bigpipe, facebook, javascript, caching, puli

Spotlight: Puli, Deployer, Async execution of the Slim Framework

A brief introduction to three contemporary topics in the PHP world:

• Puli, a package management tool for PHP
• Deployer - deployment tool
• Executing the Slim Framework in Async (with ReactPHP)

Written by Jani Tarvainen on Sunday August 9, 2015
Permalink - Tags: php, symfony, deployer, puli, async, reactphp