API Platform X Vulcain

This is a demo project using API Platform, Vulcain and Varnish all together! It adds Vulcain support to the API that I created during SymfonyCon 2018.

To start the API, Varnish and Vulcain, download this project and run:

$ docker-compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml up

The API is now available on https://localhost:8443.

To execute the JavaScript benchmarks, go to:

* https://localhost:8443/test-min-waterfall.html (maximum waterfall effect)
* https://localhost:8443/test-max-waterfall.html (as fast as possible)

Results will appear in the console! These files are stored in the api/public/ directory.

A benchmark using Symfony HTTP Client is also available, but you need to edit a line in the vendor directory (to fix a bug) to make it working, see the comment at the top of test-http-client.php!

$ php test-http-client.php

To reproduce this project in a raw API Platform project, follow this guide!

Install API Platform + Vulcain

$ curl -L https://github.com/api-platform/api-platform/archive/master.tar.gz -o api-platform-master.tar.gz
$ tar xzvf api-platform-master.tar.gz
$ cd api-platform-master
# Master version has optimizations for Vulcain
$ docker-compose exec php composer req api-platform/core:dev-master

Configure the API to be Fully Normalized

# api/config/packages/api_platform.yaml
api_platform:
    defaults:
        normalization_context:
            iri_only: true
    # ...

Generate the Entities

Conference

• name (string, not nullable)

  docker-compose exec php bin/console make:entity --api-resource Conference

  New property name (press to stop adding fields):

  name

  [select the default answer for all other questions]

Session

• conference (to-one relation with Conference, not nullable)

• author (text, not nullable)

• title (string, not nullable)

• summary (text)

  docker-compose exec php bin/console make:entity Session --api-resource

  New property name (press to stop adding fields):

  title

  Add another property? Enter the property name (or press to stop adding fields):

  summary

  Field type (enter ? to see all types) [string]:

  text

  Can this field be null in the database (nullable) (yes/no) [no]:

  yes

  Add another property? Enter the property name (or press to stop adding fields):

  author

  Add another property? Enter the property name (or press to stop adding fields):

  conference

  Field type (enter ? to see all types) [string]:

  ManyToOne

  What class should this entity be related to?:

  Conference

  Is the Session.conference property allowed to be null (nullable)? (yes/no) [yes]:

  no

  A new property will also be added to the Conference class so that you can access the related Session objects from it.

  New field name inside Conference [sessions]:

  sessions

Feedback

• session (to-one relation with Session, not nullable)

• comment (text, not nullable)

• rating (smallint, not nullable)

  docker-compose exec php bin/console make:entity Feedback --api-resource

  New property name (press to stop adding fields):

  comment

  Field type (enter ? to see all types) [string]:

  text

  Add another property? Enter the property name (or press to stop adding fields):

  rating

  Field type (enter ? to see all types) [string]:

  smallint

  Add another property? Enter the property name (or press to stop adding fields):

  session

  Field type (enter ? to see all types) [string]:

  ManyToOne

  What class should this entity be related to?:

  Session

  Is the Feedback.session property allowed to be null (nullable)? (yes/no) [yes]:

  no

Update the DB

docker-compose exec php bin/console doctrine:schema:update --force

Add Fixtures

 docker-compose exec php composer req --dev alice

# api/fixtures/data.yaml
App\Entity\Conference:
    conference_{1..10}:
        name: '<catchPhrase()>'

App\Entity\Session:
    session_{1..100}:
        conference: '@conference_*'
        title: '<catchPhrase()>'
        summary: '<sentences(3, true)>'
        author: '<name()>'

App\Entity\Feedback:
    feedback_{1..100}:
        session: '@session_*'
        comment: '<sentences(3, true)>'
        rating: '<numberBetween(0, 5)>'

 docker-compose exec php bin/console hautelook:fixtures:load 

The JS!

See api/public/test-max-waterfall.html and api/public/test-min-waterfall.html.

Setting Up the Prod Mode

See docker-compose.prod.yml.

Credits

Created by Kévin Dunglas.