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Laravel Landing Page
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Laravel

A PHP Framework For Web Artisans
Pricing:
- Open Source
Laravel – the most common and popular today.

#Developer Tools #Web Frameworks #PHP Framework 195 social mentions
Grafana Landing Page
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Grafana

Data visualization & Monitoring with support for Graphite, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Elasticsearch and many more databases
Pricing:
- Open Source
When your project is launched, it is important to monitor its "health". Are the servers coping? Is there a DDoS attack? Is there a fatal exception on the prod? Monitoring is a simple and useful tool that will give you answers to all these questions. You should start with logging. The PSR-3 standard describes the interface, and Monolog will save you from having to write your own logging service. Sentry will help you to be up to date with errors, Grafana will build beautiful graphs, and Graylog or ELK will simplify log search and incident investigation.

#Data Dashboard #Data Visualization #Data Analytics 197 social mentions
Composer Landing Page
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Composer

Composer is a tool for dependency management in PHP.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Usage of external libraries is a great solution in most cases. Especially if they earned the community's trust. To use it efficiently you should learn the Composer – a packet manager to extremely ease the process of connecting and updating all your PHP dependencies.

#Development Tools #Javascript UI Libraries #JavaScript Framework 124 social mentions
API Blueprint Landing Page

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API Blueprint

A powerful high-level API description language for web APIs.

Talking about PHP there is less and less mentioning of Full-stack. Fields of work have long been divided and PHP has taken an honorable place at the backend. Therefore learning HTML isn't a requirement for us but rather an optimization. What is really important is to clearly understand how to implement interaction with the front-end. Essential things in this area for us are REST and JSON API. Web-browser might be replaced with Postman – an ultimate tool to debug API. Earning a habit of documenting interfaces using OpenAPI or Blueprint will save you from constant questions from colleagues and give you +10 to karma.

#API Design #API Tools #API Prototyping 9 social mentions