A Practical Guide to Generating PDFs from Web Applications
Producing PDF documents such as invoices, reports and certificates from web applications. Key takeaways Approaches: HTML-to-PDF rendering or direct PDF librarie...
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Producing PDF documents such as invoices, reports and certificates from web applications. Key takeaways Approaches: HTML-to-PDF rendering or direct PDF librarie...
Letting users upload and download data as spreadsheet-friendly CSV files. Key takeaways Encoding: character encoding mismatches corrupt names and symbols Formul...
Using WordPress as a content store behind a separate front end built with another framework. Key takeaways REST API: WordPress exposes content through a REST AP...
The dependency manager for PHP projects, which installs libraries and manages versions. Key takeaways composer.json: declares dependencies and version constrain...
The PHP extension that stores compiled script bytecode in memory so scripts are not recompiled on every request. Key takeaways Bytecode cache: avoids recompilin...
Handling JavaScript package dependencies, versions and security in Node.js and front-end projects. Key takeaways package-lock.json: pins the exact installed tre...
A typed layer over JavaScript that checks types at build time and improves editor support. Key takeaways Compilation: TypeScript compiles to JavaScript Strictne...
Automated tools that catch common mistakes and enforce consistent code style. Key takeaways Linters: analyze code for problems and patterns Formatters: rewrite...
Deciding between relational databases, document stores and other options for a project. Key takeaways Relational databases: handle structured data and transacti...
Laravel's templating engine, which compiles templates to plain PHP and provides layouts, components and directives. Key takeaways Compilation: Blade templa...
Structuring applications so actions publish events that other parts of the system react to. Key takeaways Events and listeners: publishers do not know who react...
Building interactive interfaces in Laravel where state lives on the server and the page updates without full reloads. Key takeaways Server state: component stat...
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