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One of the initial problems you might come across while integrating Symfony and VueJs is probably Routes. How do you handle this Symfony Vuejs routing? How to let Symfony forward the request to Vue Router? Lets quickly get to answering these questions. Forwarding Requests from Symfony to the Vue Router To allow the Vue Router to take control, we need to forward incoming requests from Symfony to the Vue Router. …read more
Want to start using async generator function, spread operator and all the latest features of ES2017, ES2018 in your projects? Well, wait no further to checkout how easily you could achieve this! There are 2 ways of supporting these features – Update .babelrc file Update Webpack Encore config A little background explaining What is Babel? And what are Babel presets? Latest features of Javascript (like spread operators) may not supported by …read more
Many developers are often plagued with questions of the best possible way to handle inheritance mapping or configuring multiple target entities in doctrine. How does one do that? Lets go over a slightly different scenario first to understand the real problem better. Lets say you have 2 entities with their respective fields: Person (id, name, profession) Engineer (id, level) We want that Person could have a profession of an Engineer. …read more
Integrating a good front end library like Vue js has become a de facto standard these days. This tutorial aims at integrating Vue js with Symfony backend. Symfony Vue Js integration is one of the best combinations for a trendy App, whether it be a SPA or a traditional Web App. Requirements Symfony 3.4 and above Vue JS 2.5 and above FOSRestBundle (optional, but useful when you want to develop …read more
What is a Sitemap? A Sitemap is a XML file that contains a list of URLs on your website that help the Search Engines discover and crawl your website more effectively. Generating a Sitemap in Symfony is one of the trivial tasks one might encounter. There are a few bundles that might help you, although the process & configuration could be tricky, especially for beginners. This tutorial aims at generating …read more
Developers using GIT as their Source Version Control know the troubles in setting it up for new projects. Getting more productive needs setting up of user credentials, alias’ and other git configurations for every new project. But what if you could have a global git configuration to avoid redundant tasks? That’s where global gitconfig comes in. Git does not automatically create the global .gitconfig file during installation. This file is …read more
Regular Expressions aka Regex are expressions that define a search pattern. They are widely used for validation purposes, like email validation, url validation, phone number validation and so on. Forming Regex: A regex is written between two forward slashes (/) delimiters. These delimiters are essential only for certain Regex engines (JS,PHP..). It is then followed by 2 flags: i : Ignore case Flag, ignores the case(uppercase/lowercase) of the input string …read more
One of the basic things users would want to do, is search the content on a website. Having a crisp, fast and smart search that displays suggestions as one types, is something that everyone would love to have on their website! The twitter typeahead library does just that! And when typeahead is used in conjunction with Bloodhound, it makes the the search experience even better! But…. What exactly is Bloodhound? …read more
Almost every developer is pretty familiar with the mail-to scheme to send an email via a link. Today I would like to introduce two less used schemes – click to call and click to sms that will allow your users to call or sms using a link. These schemes are fully supported by all the modern browsers. Before diving deep into the know-how’s, lets go over the format for 1. …read more
Designers seem to be troubled time and again while centering items in their layout. Well, no more! There are several ways to center items, be it horizontally or vertically or both, of which I present 13 unique ways categorically and in order of their simplicity. Center elements Horizontally Centering elements horizontally is a fairly easy thing to do. It can be done in 3 ways: 1. Using text-align:center; for Inline …read more
