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Frontend
jQuery, Vue, React, and build tooling, from a backend seat.
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Vite replaced Encore, and AssetMapper replaced both in one app
Three Symfony front ends, three answers. Notes on what AssetMapper actually does, where it stops, why the Vue dashboard kept a bundler and got Vite, and why one app still runs Encore on purpose.
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React 18 inside a Symfony monolith, and the parts that hurt
Three weeks of putting React 18 components into Twig-rendered pages: createRoot and leaked roots, the two bugs StrictMode found, the one flushSync we needed, and 83 kB of extra JavaScript.
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Vue 2 in a Symfony app, before and after a build step
Three islands of Vue 2 inside Twig-rendered pages, first from a CDN script tag and then through Webpack Encore. The Twig delimiter collision, the options API contract for v-model, and the totals that disagreed by one centavo.
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jQuery 3 and the code we kept
The admin is 40,000 lines of jQuery and we moved it to 3.1.1. What the Promises/A+ rewrite of Deferred actually broke, why fractional widths made a page slow, and why we are not rewriting.
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Push notifications in a back office, with service workers
Six weeks of putting browser push into an internal admin: registration and permissions, why Chrome still needs a GCM sender id, sending from PHP, and the two failures that only production found.