Tag: webdev
- Seven most aesthetically pleasing fonts for your Web Apps (15 Jun 2024)
Without Google Fonts, our typography would be in limbo! Now, I’m neither a web designer nor have an eye for the pixel perfect and aesthetic design which a pro designer usually does. Instead, my usual workflow is to cobble together web components like bootstrap, jquery, codeigniter, etc. and try to...
- Introducing Comment Monk: Simple comment hosting system for static blogs and websites (07 Jun 2024)
I wanted to implement a comment hosting system for my static blog https://prahladyeri.github.io, just basic Wordpress.org style commenting feature with user’s name, website, etc., no complicated logins or sign-ups or third-party platforms. The user reads your blog, posts a comment, and you approve from the backend (or alternatively, it gets...
- How to install composer packages locally or offline (01 Jun 2024)
The usual way of installing composer packages with composer require <foo> is the standard. But occasionally, we might want to install the packages from our local computer to save Internet bandwidth or some other reason. Unlike Python’s pip, PHP’s composer doesn’t offer us a straightforward path to install from an...
- Thoughts on PHP routing strategies (29 May 2024)
Routing is a tricky business in PHP simply because there is no one standard way of doing it. Starting from the most simple and benign (but inflexible) routing strategy of handling every incoming request in the index.php script to the highly flexible (but arcane and opinionated) routing libraries of Symfony,...