Notes on PHP, Drupal, Laravel, React, and Next.js development.
Jun 2026
Migrating a site to Drupal 10 properly: choosing an approach based on the source platform, content modeling before migrating, using the core Migrate API with a real example, preserving SEO via URL redirects, media migration, and why themes/custom functionality usually need rebuilding rather than porting.
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Jun 2026
React vs Vue in 2026: JSX vs Single-File Components, explicit state (useState/Redux/Zustand) vs Vue's built-in reactivity and Pinia, ecosystem flexibility vs curated tooling, performance realities, and a practical framework for deciding.
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Jun 2026
Clearing up the React vs Next.js framing: React is a UI library, Next.js is a framework built on it adding routing, SSR/SSG, and Server Components. What you lose without a framework, when plain React still makes sense, and a practical rule of thumb.
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Jun 2026
Every real cause of PHP's 'Class not found' error — stale Composer autoload cache, missing use statements, PSR-4 namespace/folder mismatches, files outside any autoload map, Linux case sensitivity, and stale opcache — plus a systematic way to diagnose it.
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Jun 2026
Laravel vs Symfony compared on philosophy (convention over configuration vs assembled components), learning curve, performance realities, ecosystem/hiring, and a practical framework for deciding rather than a one-size-fits-all verdict.
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Drupal performance done right: understanding cache tags for precise invalidation, Internal/Dynamic Page Cache, reverse proxy/CDN caching, OPcache tuning, Redis/Memcache as a cache backend, optimizing Views queries, asset aggregation, image styles, and profiling before guessing at fixes.
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