Managing frontend libs in your php project
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The document discusses different solutions for managing frontend libraries in PHP projects, including asking a frontend colleague, using CDNs, putting libraries directly in the repository, using Composer, using Bower, and using BowerPHP. BowerPHP allows declaring frontend vendor dependencies in the repository similarly to Bower, but without needing Node.js.
Managing frontend libs in your php project
- 1. Managing frontend libs in your PHP project Massimiliano Arione PHPDay 2014 Unconference
- 2. about me CTO at bee-lab.net PHP dev since ~2000 fell in love with Symfony ~2007 president of PUG Roma https://twitter.com/garakkio
- 3. problem You need to manage some frontend libraries Examples: ❏ jquery ❏ bootstrap ❏ font awesome ❏ you name it
- 4. solution #1 ask your frontend colleague PROS super simple CONS he/she can do a mess there’s no frontend colleague
- 5. solution #2 Use CDNs PROS super fast CONS does not work when offline not everything is on a CDN
- 6. solution #3 Put them in your repo PROS complete control over sources CONS you have to maintain vendors
- 7. solution #4 Use Composer PROS you are already using it (are you?) CONS backend and frontend mixed duplicated code
- 8. solution #5 Use Bower PROS just declare vendors in your repo CONS you need node.js
- 9. solution #6 Use BowerPHP PROS just declare vendors in your repo CONS ...