Web frameworks
Exponential with web frameworks: Composer, the APIs, embedding content and running them side by side.
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- Task: build a small CRUD module step by step A hands-on task for framework developers - an extension with its own table, a persistent object model, a list view and an edit form with actions, validation, the CSRF token, a policy function, templates and a deploy…
- The Symfony legacy bridge for framework developers How Exponential 6 and Symfony run as one application - the legacy bridge bundle that loads the Exponential 6 kernel inside a Symfony platform installation, what each side handles, the legacy_admin siteaccess, the…
- The Exponential Platform products The Symfony-based side of the Exponential family, for framework developers choosing a stack - Exponential Platform 3.2.9, Legacy, Nexus, DXP and the Nexus starter, which ones include the Exponential 6 kernel, which ship…
- Coming from Symfony A guide for Symfony developers - what maps directly (front controller, kernel events, console, Twig-like templates, bundles) and what does not (container, routing, Doctrine, Forms, Security), the habits to keep and to…
- Coming from Laravel A guide for Laravel developers - routes, controllers, Blade, Eloquent, migrations, middleware, gates, queues, the scheduler, Artisan and Octane, each with its Exponential counterpart, what you get without code…
- Coming from Slim, CodeIgniter, Yii, CakePHP or Laminas A guide for developers from Slim, CodeIgniter, Yii, CakePHP and Laminas (Zend Framework) - how their controllers, models, views, configuration, middleware and modules map to Exponential, which conventions will feel…
- Coming from Django or Rails A guide for Django and Ruby on Rails developers moving to a PHP framework with a CMS built in - URLconf and routes, views and controllers, the ORM and migrations, the Django admin, templates, signals and callbacks…
- Coming from Express or Spring A guide for Node.js (Express, NestJS) and Java (Spring, Spring Boot) developers - the PHP request model compared with an event loop and a servlet container, routing, middleware and interceptors, dependency injection…
- When to choose Exponential, and when a plain framework A fair decision guide for teams choosing between Exponential and a general web framework such as Symfony, Laravel, Django or Rails - the project shapes where Exponential saves months, the shapes where a plain framework…
- Mixing Exponential and a framework Patterns for projects that use Exponential and another framework together - Exponential as the content back end of a framework site, a framework service called from Exponential, Exponential inside Symfony through the…
- Ten pitfalls for framework developers The ten mistakes developers from Symfony, Laravel, Django, Rails and similar frameworks make most often in their first Exponential project, each with the symptom, the cause and the fix - from unescaped template output…
- Checklists for framework developers Four checklists for developers coming from other frameworks - evaluating Exponential for a project, setting up a development environment, reviewing a first module before it is merged, and taking an application live…
- Web framework developer FAQ Short answers to the questions developers from Symfony, Laravel, Django, Rails, Express and Spring ask most about Exponential - is it a framework, where is the container, can I use Twig or Composer libraries, how do…
- Glossary for web framework developers The Exponential terms a framework developer meets, in alphabetical order, each with a one-line definition, the nearest framework word and the page that explains it - from action and attribute to workflow and wash.
- Static publishing compared with static site generators An honest comparison of Exponential's static publishing with Jekyll, Hugo, Eleventy, Astro and headless setups - where a CMS that publishes static copies wins, and where a generator is the better tool.
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