Managing frontend libs in your php project

Managing frontend libs
in your PHP project
Massimiliano Arione
PHPDay 2014 Unconference

about me
CTO at bee-lab.net
PHP dev since ~2000
fell in love with Symfony ~2007
president of PUG Roma
https://twitter.com/garakkio

problem
You need to manage some frontend libraries
Examples:
❏ jquery
❏ bootstrap
❏ font awesome
❏ you name it

solution #1
ask your frontend colleague
PROS
super simple
CONS
he/she can do a mess
there’s no frontend colleague

solution #2
Use CDNs
PROS
super fast
CONS
does not work when offline
not everything is on a CDN

solution #3
Put them in your repo
PROS
complete control over sources
CONS
you have to maintain vendors

solution #4
Use Composer
PROS
you are already using it (are you?)
CONS
backend and frontend mixed
duplicated code

solution #5
Use Bower
PROS
just declare vendors in your repo
CONS
you need node.js

solution #6
Use BowerPHP
PROS
just declare vendors in your repo
CONS
...

thanks
http://www.bowerphp.org/

references
https://github.com/RobLoach/component-installer
http://bower.io/
http://bowerphp.org/

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