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Hasty Treat - Spicy Takeout - PHP Is Good and We’re Just Re-Creating It
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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about how much modern web development has taken from PHP!
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Show Notes 03:56 - Why much of modern web development is just recreating PHP
Everyone loves to hate on PHP, but modern Web dev takes a lot from PHP
05:44 - Mixing templating and logic
We do this with JSX
07:39 - Each request has its own scope
08:57 - Massive standard lib
Format a date? No sweat!
Image resizing? Sure!
Audio bindings? Sure!
10:16 - URL-based routing
Next.js pages
Serverless functions
11:13 - Server-rendered
Hotwire
11:38 - $_GET, $_POST, are just available
Next.js hooks
12:29 - Variable interpolation
12:59 - All-in-one frameworks
Laravel did it
CakePHP
CodeIgnighter
13:32 - Direct DB access
SQL statements
14:37 - Why do people hate PHP?
WordPress
Inconsistent API
Their first code was PHP and they sucked
PHP has come a long way
It used to not be safe
Blocking by default - no async/await
17:48 - Why is JS still better?
Shared code between frontend and backend
Single language
Huge ecosystem (could be a con)
Links Syntax 267: Hasty Treat - Turbolinks + Server Generated HTML + JS Sprinkles
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