dkvz / php-lightweight

Structure for a simple PHP project with webpack and single point entry

PHP Lightweight App Structure

Requirements

• NodeJS

To use the PHP dev server you need PHP installed on your dev machine.

Features

• No PHP dependencies
• SCSS styles
• JS bundle code splitting
• Full routing logic with clean URLs
• Can use the basic PHP dev server for development purposes

Routing

Views

TODO Explain the logic.

API endpoints

We assume some sort of API version identifier to follow the "/api/" part of the URL e.g. "/api/v1/".

That version identifier is accessible to the API endpoint handler script through the $app['api_version'] string.

Package versions

• Version 2 of clean-webpack-plugin seems to behave completely differently. A good idea would be to just use rimraf to clean up the dist foler.

TODO

• Do it like React with a rotating logo :D
• Test what happens when just using root_url/api
• Make the document title dynamic
• Add autoprefixer to the webpack config for regular .css files
• Test on Windows
• Add a Dockerfile

To explain

• Explain how to add a CSS framework
• Talk about tests somewhere
• Explain how to add more JS bundles
• Explain how you can inline page content inside a view PHP file and how we sort of moved away from absolute separation of concern (404.php will use that I think)
• There is no caching for templates - assets paths or fully processed partials could be cached
• Link the "PHP templating" page from the official doc (native PHP templating?)
• Explain how to add Babel and why I'm not using it in the baseline
• Explain that the PHP dev server depends on the locally installed extensions and how to enable them on Windows