In my last article, I talked a bit about creating a DI container. Today, we are going to talk about PHP frameworks and performance. The current situation Thanks to PHP Benchmarks, we can have a rough idea of what is the current fastest PHP framework....
A while ago, I've created a small PHP framework. In order to adhere to modern practice (it even has basic middleware support even if I don't like them), I had to pick a DI container. The issue was: either there were too complicated, or too simple. An...
I was working on this project where speed metrics are very important. On one of the pages, a couple of YouTube videos were added, but these really killed the PageSpeed score. We had to do something about it, and this is what I will explain in this ar...
A couple of months ago, I've opened an issue about buttons not using display: inline-flex. Since Bootstrap 5 aims to be a modern framework, you could be surprised that it's still using display: inline-block. A bit of background Recently, I was readin...
I really like using the excellent Symfony VarDumper component. It provides such a nice way to display variables or objects that can get very large or complicated in OOP. But there is something missing... In my workflow, I add one or two dump or dd st...
In my recent experiments, I've been using Bootstrap 5 grid to create some layouts. And while it works perfectly, it has two problems: It's a bit verbose It's not exactly lightweight (51kb minified) On top of that, it's using utility classes all ove...
