6 min de lectureArticle en anglais
Upgrade from Create React App to Vite
A step by step guide to migrate a React project from Create React App to Vite
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Des articles écrits entre 2013 et 2023, pour la plupart en anglais, sur Symfony, React, Docker, WordPress et d’autres sujets de développement web.
2023
2019
9 min de lectureArticle en anglais
Printing the web, part 2: HTML and CSS for printing books
You wouldn't believe all that can be done with CSS for print. This article introduces all the little-known CSS properties that will allow to create a book: table of contents, page numbers, headers and footers, footnotes, etc.
6 min de lectureArticle en anglais
Printing the web, part 1: retrieving content from the web
This article is part of two articles that explain how to print web content into a book (a PDF file). In this first article, we'll create a script to scrape content from a web page.
1 min de lectureArticle en anglais
WordCamp Vancouver 2019 – WordPress, the automated way - slides
My takeaway on the WordCamp Vancouver 2019 event.
7 min de lectureArticle en anglais
Advanced regular expression features to match Markdown links
Learn advanced regular expression techniques like non-capturing groups, named groups, look behind expressions and recursion. We will apply all these techniques with a regular expression that matches Markdown links.
2018
6 min de lectureArticle en anglais
WordPress, the automated way (part 1): setup
Automate WordPress installation, configuration and deployment with Docker. Plugins will be automatically installed, MySQL initialialized, admin user created by default, just by running one command!
4 min de lectureArticle en anglais
Implement a ReCaptcha React component validated by Symfony
We are going to implement a React component to render a Google ReCaptcha element, and will add PHP / Symfony service to check that the ReCaptcha was correctly filled by the user.
4 min de lectureArticle en anglais
Implementation of a GraphQL mutation with file upload
I'm going to explain in this article how to implement a form with a file input that will upload the file to the server using a GraphQL mutation.
7 min de lectureArticle en anglais
Create the missing podcast from a web radio station with Docker, VLC and PHP
How to record any radio stream with a script and using VLC in the command line.
2 min de lectureArticle en anglais
Using Redis for session handling in Symfony 4.1+
How to use Redis in Symfony project to manage user sessions.
2017
7 min de lectureArticle en anglais
3 ways to get Docker for Mac faster on your Symfony app.
Docker is an awesome tool for development but it turns out to be very slow on Mac by default on Symfony apps. We'll eexplore ways to make your Symfony project run much faster on Docker.
4 min de lectureArticle en anglais
Migrating users to a secure hashing algorithm in Symfony
This article explains how to gracefully convert your insecurely encrypted passwords to a secure method (using Bcrypt for instance).
2016
3 min de lectureArticle en anglais
Yarn, the next package manager for JavaScript
In this article, we'll compare npm with yarn
4 min de lectureArticle en anglais
Generating PDF files with Symfony
This article explains how to generate PDF files in Symfony with KnpSnappyBundle and the underlying wkhtmltopdf library.
2015
7 min de lecture
Retour sur la Symfony Live 2015
Un retour sur la Symfony Live de 2015.
2 min de lectureArticle en anglais
My contributions to Doctrine 2.5
Some developer experience improvements in Doctrine ORM.
2014
5 min de lectureArticle en anglais
Doctrine filters and annotations to improve security and ease development in a Symfony app
Make use of Doctrine filters in your Symfony project to improve security in your app and automate some query parts.
1 min de lectureArticle en anglais
Twig Extensions 1.2 released with two new i18n filters
Internationalisation filters in Twig.
2 min de lectureArticle en anglais
Clear input control with Bootstrap 3
CSS tricks to add a "Clear" control on text inputs.
2 min de lectureArticle en anglais
4-digit years for localized dates in Twig templates
Building a Twig extension to display localized dates with 4-digit years
2013
3 min de lectureArticle en anglais
Leverage Symfony2 extra features to simplify controller actions
This post presents two simple yet underused Symfony features that make controller action code shorter and simpler to understand.
1 min de lectureArticle en anglais
Doctrine DBAL - Count updated rows
Just a little tip to count how many rows have been updated after the execution of a Doctrine query.
1 min de lectureArticle en anglais
Modal sheet dialogs in Javascript: Bootstrap modal sheet plugin
Implementation of modal sheet dialogs (the OS X way) using Boostrap.
6 min de lectureArticle en anglais
Notification messages for JSON responses with jQuery and Symfony2
We’re going to setup an easy-to-use notification system using jQuery and the Symfony2 event dispatcher, plus some CSS to get things look nice.