It’s over again. And it’s a bittersweet feeling. I got to meet many friends again, old and new. I’ve learned quite a few things. But it’s over, and that’s sad. Let’s have a look at the highlights of the conference.
Laravel
This was obviously the biggest news out there: During the keynote of Kevin Dunglas it was announced that API Platform, with the release of version 4 which is available now, not only supports Symfony, but also supports Laravel. And there are plans to start supporting more systems as well in the future. So it could well be that API Platform can become available for Yii, CakePHP, perhaps even WordPress or Drupal. All API Platform components are available as a stand-alone PHP package, so in theory it could be integrated into anything. And to jump immediately to the last talk of the conference as well, self-proclaimed “Laravel Guy” Steve McDougall compared for us what he used to need to do in Laravel to create an API, and what he can now do. And apparently, if you use Laravel, you get a Lambo. Not my words 😉
This was by far the biggest news for the conference. And it surely brought on some interesting conversations. I for one am happy that API Platform is now also on Laravel, as I work with Laravel every once in a while as well. This will make creating APIs a lot easier.
Xdebug, brewing binaries and consuming APIs
Some other interesting talks were done by Derick Rethans, Boas Falke and Nicolas Grekas. Derick updated us on recent Xdebug developments by demoing a lot of stuff. Boas showed us in 20 minutes how he can brew binaries using FrankenPHP. Check how he did it! And Nicolas showed some interesting stuff for using Symfony’s HTTP Client.
Meeting friends
The hallway track is important at every conference, and so it is at API Platform Con. I was so happy to be able to talk to people like Sergès Goma, Hadrien Cren from Sensio Labs, Łukasz Chruściel, Florian Engelhardt, Allison Guilhem, Derick Rethans. Special mention: Francois Zaninotto. We hadn’t spoken in ages, it was so good to meet him again.
Big thanks
Big thanks to the organizers of the API Platform Con. It has been amazing. I feel very welcome here in the beautiful city of Lille. Hopefully see you next year!
Up next
Up next in unKonf, which is in Mannheim in two weeks time. This promises to be fun!