Leo's blog

Starting from today, I will be publishing a series of articles for the Log Rocket Blog concerning the conceptualization, design and implementation of a GraphQL server.

I have just submitted my very first RFCs (Request For Comments) to the GraphQL spec: [RFC] Composable fields [RFC] Composable directives The first one would enable to have fields compose other fields, like this: query { posts { date: if( condi…

Update 23/01/2021: I created the guides for the Schema Namespacing in gatographql.com: Demo Explanation I have just made the types and interfaces in GraphQL by PoP be automatically namespaced!

I just discovered an awesome new tool to visualize and interact with the application schema: GraphQL Voyager.

I updated my slides introducing my GraphQL server in PHP with all the new developments and features, including how it now complies 100% with the GraphQL spec.

I have added support to the GraphQL introspection fields, so my implementation of a GraphQL server in PHP is now 100% GraphQL-spec compliant!

After several months of work, I can announce that my project GraphQL API for PoP finally provides a spec-compliant implementation of a GraphQL server in PHP!

So you have decided to write an article.

Many people wanting to write for an online magazine will possibly find it difficult to even answer the most fundamental question: What to write about?

This week I have been named person of the week by Smashing Magazine, the popular web design and development online magazine for which I regularly contribute.

I had originally started implementing the GraphQL spec using server-side components, providing yet another implementation of GraphQL on PHP (such as those based on the popular graphql-php library), but attempting to also support those features that GraphQL

Let's talk about what is needed to be able to write good articles, those that people find valuable and will thank you for writing.

When some time ago I started modernizing PoP's codebase to using Composer as its foundational framework for package management, I decided to also decouple PoP's codebase from WordPress, making it CMS-agnostic.

Yesterday I had my 20th article published on Smashing Magazine.

The GraphQL API for PoP now features HTTP caching!

Alright, I just finished my slides for the NomadJS webinar that I presented yesterday (yeah, I finished them 1 day later!)

I have recently introduced the PoP API for GraphQL, an implementation of GraphQL in PHP, and then described some of its advantages over a typical implementation of GraphQL.

I have recently introduced a new implementation of GraphQL for PHP, which is based on the PoP API.

I will be presenting a webinar on my implementation of GraphQL for PHP on November 13th at 6 pm PST.

Yesterday I published a new article on Smashing Magazine: "Create Once, Publish Everywhere" with WordPress.

Imagine using GraphQL but with plenty of improvements: Server-side caching, better security (reducing the amount of time and energy spent in countering DoS attacks), removing the need to set-up the hundreds (or even thousands) of properties on the schema,…

GraphQL is great, but it has a very big issue: It is not easy to cache in the server (while it is doable, it doesn't come out of the box and requires a good amount of extra engineering).

Applying to speak in tech conferences is so much work!

I just watched the introduction by Laravel's founder Taylor Otwell of Laravel Vapor, a new managed solution for Laravel applications that is fully based on the "serverless" concept, enabling to deploy PHP applications without having to worry about the ser…

Today is a special day for me: I published my first ever plugin on the WordPress repository!

Welcome to my blog, which took 2 years for me to launch, but actually 2 hours to code and deploy!

Actually, I've just presented my talk!

I love Composer.

I recently created project Install WordPress through Composer and WP-CLI which fully installs WordPress through a script, without having to manually edit file wp-config.php to enter the database configuration and other variables during the installation pr…

Some time ago, I wrote article Using Composer With WordPres for Smashing Magazine to describe how to integrate WordPress and Composer together, with the aim to install WordPress more easily than through the official, manual way.

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