36 posts

The React paradigm shift

React is currently in a transition period, moving away from a 100% client-side approach toward one where the server plays a significant role in rendering interfaces. Why? Let’s take a closer look at the main symptoms reflecting this transformation. The arrival of Server Components Still describe...

#react#ssr#spa#nextjs#remix#gatsby

Published on Dec 5, 2024

From unit testing to integration testing: setup, findings and limits

Introduction Some of the frontend projects KNP works on are business applications that require a rich and responsive interface. The development of an SPA generally matches these needs, despite a potentially high complexity, and the cost raise it implies. In such codebase, we commonly find the fo...

#typescript#react#redux#msw#testing

Published on Nov 21, 2024

Choosing a front-end stack for a Symfony backend

Each customer project comes with its own specificities, and as developers at KNP it's usually our job to choose or advise on the suite of tools needed to implement them. The javascript ecosystem is dizzyingly rich. I hope that this article will help developers, whether beginners or experienced, with...

#symfony#ssr#spa#javascript#react#vuejs

Published on Feb 16, 2024

Gradual migration from Twig to React with Symfony UX and Redux

When the going gets tough and you realise that you can't recover from a drunken seminar overnight, it's a good idea to console yourself by remembering that our tools age faster than we do.

#javascript#react#twig#symfony#migration#redux

Published on Sep 20, 2023

Deploy multiple branches on your staging environment

In software development, the testing phase can be a significant bottleneck in the process. The multi-build staging environment has emerged as a valuable solution to these problems.

#docker#docker-compose#swarm#traefik

Published on May 10, 2023

SOLID Principles

SOLID principals are still relevant and an essential foundation for writing quality software. Take a deep dive into each principle, their meaning and discover concrete examples.

#solid#quality

Published on Apr 13, 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

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

How to make the development stack closer to production environments? We show you how to put HTTPS locally with Mkcert and Traefik

#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...

#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

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