web development

Spellbook of Modern Web Dev

Spellbook of Modern Web Dev is a collection of 2,000+ carefully selected links to resources on anything web development related. It covers subjects from Internet history and basics of HTML, CSS, and Javascript, all the way to tools, libraries and advanced usage of web technologies, and more; from network protocols and browser compatibility to development environments, containers, and ChatOps.

This document originated from a bunch of most commonly used links and learning resources I sent to every new web developer on our full-stack web development team.

For each problem domain and each technology, I try my best to pick only one or a few links that are most important, typical, common or popular and not outdated, base on the clear trends, public data and empirical observation.

Prefer fine-grained classifications and deep hierarchies over featureless descriptions and distractive comments.

Ideally, each line is a unique category. The ” / “ symbol between the links means they are replaceable. The “, “symbol between the links means they are complementary.

I wish this document could be closer to a kind of knowledge graph or skill tree than a list or a collection.

It currently contains 2000+ links (projects, tools, plugins, services, articles, books, sites, etc.)

On one hand, this is one of the best single resources on the topic of web development that I’ve seen in a very long time. On the other hand, it re-confirms my belief in “there is no such thing as a full-stack web developer”. There’s just too many levels, and there’s too much depth to each level for a single individual to be an expert at. But you get bonus points for trying.

formapro/pvm – PHP library for building workflows and business processes

formapro/pvm is a PHP library for building workflows and business processes. This is a nice addition to alternatives that I’ve looked at in “Getting started with workflows in PHP“. The library is brought to you by Forma Pro, the same guys who are behind the php-enqueue enterprise queuing solution in PHP.

PHP Internals Book

PHP Internals Book provides some insight into how PHP works internally. It currently covers PHP 5, with PHP 7 update coming soon. If you are eager to help, the book is available under Creative Commons on GitHub.

Async PHP Requests & Reactive Responses with PHP-FPM

“Async PHP Requests & Reactive Responses with PHP-FPM” is talk by Holger Woltersdorf, in which he shares the approaches he tried for implementing asynchronous requests in PHP, and how he arrived at hollodotme/fast-cgi-client, which is a PHP fast CGI client for sending requests (a)synchronously to PHP-FPM.

Rate Limiting with NGINX and NGINX Plus

Nginx blog (which, if you work with Nginx in any capacity, you should subscribe to) has an excellent guide to rate limiting. The article explains rate limiting from the basics, through bursts, all the way to more advanced examples, with multiple rate limits for the same location.