Api Platform - Beyond REST

Slides to come.

• Apéro PHP - Lille 14/03/2019
• Api Platform Meetup - Paris 26/03/2019 ...

Requirements

• docker
• nodejs
• composer
• authbind (use apt-get or brew, it's used so that the user running pm2 can use the 80 port)
• pm2 (npm install pm2 -g)
• PHP >= 7.1.3 with :
  • php-sqlite3
  • php-zip
  • php-curl
  • php-amqp

Installation

Go to the front directory, it's a Next.js project (no reason behind that I just wanted to try their tools). Just run npm install in there.

Go to the api directory and run npm install and make.

Launch

/!\ Disclaimer this is NOT a production build it's a "in-development" proof of concept.

Basically:

docker-compose up -d
authbind --deep pm2 start pm2.json

/!\ Some docker services like Elasticsearch may not start properly, if that's the case the services launched by pm2 will fail.

For example, this is needed on my computer if I want Elasticsearch to start:

sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144

To be sure just run docker services without daemon:

docker-compose up

and make sure that everything started up.

Then use authbind --deep pm2 start pm2.json && pm2 logs to log the services.

pm2 is used to start:

• a php server (bin/console server:run) on port 8080
• the bin/console messenger:consume-messages command that handles messages
• the nextjs server on port 3000
• a proxy on port 80 that facilitates the demo access on http://localhost

Obviously on a production environment these would just be behind nginx and php-fpm would be used as a php server. Also phppm could be interesting to run the messenger handlers.