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Author Leonardo Losoviz

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Leonardo Losoviz is a freelance developer and writer, with an ongoing quest to integrate innovative paradigms (Serverless PHP, server-side components, GraphQL) into existing PHP frameworks (WordPress, Symfony, Laravel), and unifying all of them into a single mental model. He gives account of his progress on Smashing Magazine, on his own blog leoloso.com, and in whichever event he is accepted to speak.

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Making GraphQL Work In WordPress

Let’s explore the plugins providing GraphQL servers to WordPress. When should we use WPGraphQL, and when the GraphQL API for WordPress? Is there some advantage of one over the other, or some particular task that is easier to accomplish with one of them? In this article, we will find out. Read more…

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Using Composer With WordPress

WordPress is modernizing, allowing us to rethink how to make the most out of newer tools and technologies. In this article, Leonardo Losoviz explains how you can integrate WordPress with Composer, Packagist, and WPackagist in order to produce better code. He will review two projects which provide an integration between WordPress and Composer: manually setting our composer.json file depending on John P. Bloch’s mirror of WordPress’ core, and Bedrock by Roots. Read more…

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Improving WordPress Code With Modern PHP

Due to backwards compatibility, WordPress hasn’t taken advantage of new PHP features released after PHP 5.2.4. Fortunately, WordPress will soon require PHP 5.6+ and even PHP 7.0+ not long after that. The recent release of Gutenberg could be a sign of the good times to come. In this article, Leonardo Losoviz makes a tour of the PHP features newly-available to WordPress, and attempts to suggest how these can be used to produce better software. Read more…

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Introducing The Component-Based API

In the world of APIs, GraphQL has lately overshadowed REST due to its ability to query and retrieve all required data in a single request. Using a component-based API makes most sense when the website is itself built using components, i.e. when the webpage is iteratively composed of components wrapping other components until, at the very top, we obtain a single component that represents the page.  In this article, Leonardo Losoviz will describe a different type of API, based around components, which takes a step further the amount of data it can fetch from a single request. Read more…

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Caching Smartly In The Age Of Gutenberg

Caching delivers a faster response, and frees up resources in the server. When optimizing the speed of our websites from the server side, caching ranks among the most critical tasks to get just right. In this article, Leonardo Losoviz examines an architecture based on self-rendering components and SSR, how do we identify those sections of code that require user state, isolate them from the page, and make them be rendered on the client-side only?and analyzes how to implement it for WordPress sites through Gutenberg. Read more…

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Avoiding The Pitfalls Of Automatically Inlined Code

Overusing inline CSS or JS code, as opposed to serving code through static resources, can harm the site’s performance. In this article, Leonardo Losoviz will learn how to load dynamic code through static files instead, avoiding the drawbacks of too much inline code. You will see, as an example, how WordPress loads 43kb of scripts to print the Media Manager, which are pure JavaScript templates and could perfectly be loaded as static resources. Read more…

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Implications Of Thinking In Blocks Instead Of Blobs

What does Gutenberg bring to the future of WordPress? In this article, Leonardo Losoviz will analyze several implications of building sites through a component-based architecture and through Gutenberg (as the implementation), including what new functionalities it can deliver, how much better it can integrate with current website development trends, and what it means to the future of WordPress. Read more…

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Sending Emails Asynchronously Through AWS SES

Sending many transactional emails at once, if not architected properly, could become a bottleneck for the application and degrade the user experience. Part of the problem is connecting to the SMTP server from within the application, synchronously. In this article, Leonardo Losoviz will explore how to send emails from outside the application, asynchronously, using a combination of AWS S3, Lambda, and SES. Read more…

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Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3

When creating a multi-step form in which a file is uploaded and manipulated, if the application is running on several servers behind a load balancer, then we need to make sure that the file is available all throughout the execution of the process, for whichever server handles the process at each step. In this article, Leonardo Losoviz will solve this issue by creating a repository accessible to all servers where to upload the files, based on AWS S3. Read more…

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Adding Code-Splitting Capabilities To A WordPress Website Through PoP

It’s a well-known fact that it’s not easy for WP websites to implement code-splitting through Webpack. In this article, Leonardo Losoviz takes things into his own hands and implements his own version of code-splitting for an open-source framework named PoP. He will analyze the performance of a website with and without code-splitting, and the benefits and downsides of using a custom implementation over an external bundler. We hope you enjoy the ride! Read more…

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How To Make A Dynamic Website Become Static Through A Content CDN

The WordPress ecosystem, which relies on a huge community of developers, enables us to constantly incorporate new features into our websites with no major effort, or at least with much less effort than is required to develop the functionality from scratch. Moving from WordPress to Netlify has trade-offs. What if we could have a WordPress website in which its dynamic content could be exported as static files? Leonardo Losoviz explains how you can combine both worlds: switch to a static site generator without having to abandon WordPress. Read more…

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Implementing A Service Worker For Single-Page App WordPress Sites

In this article, Leonardo Losoviz will share his experience with implementing service workers for PoP, an SPA website that runs on WordPresss. SPAs greatly enhance service workers, such as enabling you to choose from different appshells to load during runtime. Integrating with WordPress is not all that smooth, but it’s worth doing: the website will load faster and will work offline. Read more…