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Random things on PHP, Symfony and web development
Time to first paint is the one of the most critical user experience for web sites. Essentially what this means is the moment the user sees something on their screens after following a link. This gives the perception of a fast load time, and first impressions count on the web.
RESTful APIs are on the lips of everyone currently. Everyone is got one or will have one very soon. They are always underlined as being full REST APIs. But if you're not fully utilising your API internally, is it really complete and a priority for you?
This summer I had a discussion with a social worker who helps teens and young adults find their way in life. The things were the usual kind you would imagine - messing up with school, money or just not having any direction in life.
This is not unlike the life of a typical web developer. In this world it's easy to lose scale, the sense of what is important and just worry about secondary things in general.
There is plenty of buzz around the web development community about web components. There are standards polyfill implementations and custom approaches such as Facebook's React and Flux combo. While there is no shortage of options, this post will introduce yet another one useful family of technologies.
The popularity of Symfony has made the debug toolbar a familiar sight for many developers. Ranging from Drupal to Bolt to eZ Publish, many different tools now share common debugging interfaces.
Symfony is a term related to software development with the PHP language. Symfony is a set of components and an HMVC (Hierarchical Model View Controller) framework to be used in PHP programming. It released under the MIT license as Open Source.