What is Prettier? Originally from the Javascript ecosystem, if you're not familiar with it Prettier is a code formatter, which means it takes your code, and makes it as its namme indicates prettier. There are a lot of code formatters, and for a lot of languages – even Javascript has quite a few of them. But Prettier is currently one of the most popular code formatters out there and it has spread...

As far as I can remember, PHP has always had a terrible reputation at handling very heavy or asynchronous tasks. For a long while if you wanted to parallelize long tasks you had to resort to forking through pcntlfork which had its own issues, and you couldn’t really handle the results of those tasks properly, etc. As such, a habit has kind of developed where we go straight for more intricate...

If you’ve ever worked on any PHP application, or package, or anything you know that debugging performance issues is hard. There are several ways to ease the pain a little: debug bars, putting timers a bit everywhere. Or if you’re courageous like I was for a long time, you use xdebug snapshots which requires you to configure it, and then parsing the snapshots which takes a long time, etc....

Dans la vaste école des frameworks web, de langage en langage le paysage est bien différent. Là où les développeurs Ruby et Python ont su se mobiliser pour une même cause autour des piliers que sont désormais Rails et Django, il faut bien avouer que du côté du PHP ressort un certain côté cours de récré. Des frameworks à la pelle, chacun dérivés de X ou Y, pas un pour s’entendre sur des...