Category: Web Dev

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Sass and Less Quick introduction Tutorial

Post author By Mirko Benedetti
Post date 2020-12-24

In this article I would like to show you some basics infos I find useful in the process of mastering Less, Sass and CSS itself. Take a moment to read it.

This is absolutely not an exahustive tutorial, but you may find it interesting to begin with. You will learn a lot by practicing these tips.

Mirko Benedetti

Hi there. My name is Mirko Benedetti, I’m a Software Developer and I founded this website. Excellence is what I consider to be our ultimate goal, and passion for technology constantly drives me to it. I began programming self-taught at a very young age. Since then I learned a lot, and every day I’m learning new things.

Tags Tutorial, Web

PHP Programming Symfony Tutorials Web Dev

Symfony 5 RESTful API, quick intro for beginners

Post author By Mirko Benedetti
Post date 2020-06-01

During this quick intro guide, you’ll easily learn the main principles of building a RESTful API, making use of the framework called Symfony, version 5.1.0, which you’ll already know, at least by name.

This article follows another one with the same topic, this time we’ll be discussing the latest Symfony stable version, actually. It has been released this November of 2020, and it will be supported till July 2021.

Mirko Benedetti

Tags API, RESTful

Laravel PHP Programming Tutorials Web Dev

Laravel Rest API, the easy introduction Tutorial

Post author By Mirko Benedetti
Post date 2019-12-23

This article follows another one talking about a Symfony Rest API, which we made to exemplify the concept of RESTful applications.

This is the turn of Laravel, in that we are already able to write a PHP API in a simple way, but we still don’t know how easy it is with this other framework. So let’s get started.

Mirko Benedetti

Tags API, Framework, MySQL, PHP, Tutorial, Web

AWS JavaScript Programming Tutorials Web Dev

Quick RESTful API with Node.js Express and DocumentDB

Post author By Mirko Benedetti
Post date 2019-10-10

In this episode we’ll be continuing our journey through Node.js, looking at a simple and minimal RESTful API example with the help of Express to build it, and DocumentDB for our persistence.

If you haven’t done before, take a look at this tutorial which is conceptually similar, except for the fact that persistence this time is based on a MongoDB engine, hosted on AWS, and it’s called DocumentDB.

Mirko Benedetti

Tags API, AWS, Database, Express, MongoDB, Node.js

AWS JavaScript Programming Tutorials Web Dev

Easy RESTful API with Node.js Express and MySQL

Post author By Mirko Benedetti
Post date 2019-08-17

One of the modern paradigms of Software Development is the use of RESTful APIs which can simplify and make life a lot easier for engineers when it comes to building APIs and webservices.

This tutorial is far from explaining you all the details about REST and Microservices, nonetheless it can give you good guidance for the beginning of your learning of these technologies.

Mirko Benedetti

Tags API, AWS, Database, MySQL, Node.js

PHP Programming Symfony Tutorials Web Dev

Symfony 4: a CRUD tutorial, second edition

Post author By Mirko Benedetti
Post date 2019-06-17

This tutorial follows another guide that I made, always about Symfony, but this time we’re talking about Symfony 4.

As the framework evolves into new releases there might be some changes in methods, classes and tools. They may become deprecated or obsolete and new tools may be added, although some kind of retrocompatibility may be assured.

If you want to know more about that, you can visit Symfony’s roadmap and discover how it will evolve and how long the various versions will be maintained.

Mirko Benedetti

Tags CRUD, Database, Framework, PHP, Tool, Tutorial, Web

Admin AWS Docker PHP Programming Tutorials Web Dev

Full LAMP Docker and AWS Introduction Tutorial

Post author By Mirko Benedetti
Post date 2019-02-10

During this short exercise you will learn how to create a simple LAMP example application and deploy it using Docker on the Amazon Web Services ECS platform, with the help of RDS for a MySQL database.

All the following example is based on the AWS CLI, though we could have done faster and easier using the web based console. Instead, having gained a skill with the terminal interface, allows us to better understand how each step and parameter is working. In addition we will be able to create our own automation scripts based on the CLI.

The prerequites for this tutorial are the installation of the AWS CLI and the ECS CLI. If you haven’t them installed on your system, please refer to these links on how to do it: install the AWS CLI and the ECS CLI.

Mirko Benedetti

Tags Admin, AWS, Container, ECR, ECS, PHP, RDS, Tutorial, Web

Admin Docker Laravel Programming Tutorials Web Dev

One minute Laravel and Docker Tutorial

Post author By Mirko Benedetti
Post date 2018-12-27

In this short lesson we’re gonna focus on two topics we tackled some time ago in this mini series of tutorials: Laravel and Docker.

In the getting started section of the Laravel project’s documentation we can see that a vagrant box named Homestead is strongly adviced to begin with a quick and smooth developing experience.

Homestead is pre-packed with all the stuff necessary to begin the development of a Laravel application, but when it comes to deploying any application, Docker has many strong points that other virtual environments have not. In many cases it is a must: see this article of mine for further details.

Mirko Benedetti

Tags Admin, Container, CRUD, Docker Compose, Framework, PHP, Tutorial, Web