Talking open-source tools and API Platform feat. Kevin Dunglas, CEO at Les-Tilleuls.coop

In our recent podcast episode, we spoke with Kevin Dunglas, CEO at Les-Tilleuls.coop, which is an organization made up of API experts that created the open-source framework, API Platform. Appropriately fitting into our Open-Source October theme, our conversation with Kevin included some implementation tips and a walkthrough of the benefits of API Platform and how it utilizes OpenAPI. Check out some of our biggest takeaways:

The Goal of API Platform

"The goal of API Platform is to be very easy to use so that developers can create a prototype and start working on the project quickly. And then to scale that project from there."

API Platform as an Open-Source Framework

"Using API Platform, the goal is to scale a tiny prototype to production of a deeper project without having to touch much of the code. And mostly thanks to the open-source community, we've been able to improve the framework's extensibility. It's because it's an open-source project that we are able to have this ability to do something very quickly but also to scale effectively."

Utilizing PHP in the API Platform Framework

 

"We hesitated when we started the project to use PHP at the time, but PHP was still very popular in France, and Symphony is still very popular as well, so we stuck with it. PHP is improving every year, and PHP 81 will have a lot of exciting new features."

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