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Tests are an essential step to ensure that the application works properly. 🙌 Unit tests can be used to test individual parts, while integration tests verify that all parts of the application work together smoothly.

#tests #quality #behat #behavior driven development

Published on Mar 20, 2023

How to map a PHP enum with Doctrine in a Symfony project ?

PHP 8.1 comes with a new enum feature. This article aims to propose a way to map these enums to the database with doctrine in a Symfony project.

#php #doctrine #symfony

Published on Mar 18, 2022

An approach to handle third party SDK’s custom event systems in front end projects

Abstract (TL; DR;) When working on frontend projects, a common way to deal with the asynchronicity of third party SDKs methods is to rely on callbacks or promises. Nonetheless, it is quite frequent that some libraries use their own event system to notify their consumers whenever an action has been...

#rxjs #javascript

Published on Sep 22, 2021

[How2Tips] How to restrict allowed characters inside a text input in one line of code

Recently I encountered a problem which is very generic : I had to prevent some characters insertion inside a text input. It avoids letting user filling input with unwanted characters, then asking them to correct by displaying an error. For example, in case of a telephone number. It's a pretty com...

#beginner #javascript

Published on Jul 21, 2021

[How2Tips] How to add a front-end framework to an existing Symfony monolith

This article is for all developers who want to add a front-end framework like React to an existing Symfony + Twig application. But first, a little bit more context : Symfony (released in 2005) has been the most used PHP framework of the previous decade. The core team is doing an amazing job and h...

#symfony #traefik #react

Published on Jun 22, 2021

How to handle https with docker-compose and mkcert for local development

Docker and docker-compose are now widely used in the world of web development. Since our first Hackathon in 2015, Docker became a standard on all projects: It helps a lot to maintain our stacks and having specific configurations for local , staging or production environments. Nevertheless, Antoine...

#docker-compose #docker

Published on May 21, 2021

A feedback on static website development

As you can see, KNP has a new blog, yay! If you’re interested in learning what happened behind the scene, then this article is for you. We will be talking about technical aspects, choices, their evolutions and the place of internal projects at KNP. A brief history As you may know, we do have the ...

#gatsby #react #circleci #strapi #javascript

Published on Oct 30, 2020

[FOSS Project] Explanation of should-skip-ci

This article describes how we found a solution to only run the test suite covering the latest changes on git repositories which are hosting multiple apps (a.k.a. monorepos). Context Most of the client's projects we're building are consisting into a backend API and a frontend application. Depending ...

#ci #tests #quality #devops

Published on Jan 14, 2020

On GDPR compliance implementation

Joris, with a great experience as back-end developer, discovered and learned to love react and reactive programming on his current project, i24News. He shares with you his knowledge about General Data Protection Regulation he applied to i24News. Enjoy ! The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)...

#javascript #gdpr

Published on Oct 9, 2019

[How2Tip] Varnish : dynamic backend DNS resolution in a Docker swarm context

Nicolas is a Symfony & React developer and trainer at KNPLabs and is currently working on i24news.tv as Devops. He shares with you how his team solved the issue they had when using varnish with a backend defined as a named host. To add more precisions about the context, we were using docker swarm,...

#swarm #docker

Published on Aug 21, 2019

News for our FOSS projects maintenance

Context June 2019 During our latest hackathon, we had a discussion about KNP Labs' FOSS projects. We talked about thenumber of repositories we had and what to do with such many open source projects. Many of these projects were created when there was no other alternative in the Symfony ecosystem. T...

Published on Jul 3, 2019

How we extended the trello experience with power-ups

During our last Hackathon, Emma and Joris worked on a trello power-up in order facilitate your life ! They are both, front and back developper, Emma loves doing conferences in her unicorne dress and Joris is a serial blog post writer :D Trello is a collaborative tool we use here at KNP to split ...

#trello #javascript

Published on Jul 1, 2019

[How2Tips] How to create and publish an open source javascript library

David is one of the most experienced KNP devs. Since 2013 he is Lead Dev, trainer and speaker here at KNP Labs. After a PhP period, he switched to JS, his Dada, his troll, his passion... He also published some nice FOSS contributions... for example a little lib that will help you to boost your react...

#javascript #rxjs #foss

Published on Jun 25, 2019

[How2Tips] How to test Fluentd config

KNPLabs develops apps and websites with Symfony and React, for client projects, and also contributing to open source projects. Albin came to KNPLabs as a Symfony Developer and discovered his passion for devops during a project with an international client. He loves to work on our open source bund...

#foss #opensource #fluentd