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Mastering The Faster Web with PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript

By : Andrew Caya
Book Image

Mastering The Faster Web with PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript

By: Andrew Caya

Overview of this book

This book will get you started with the latest benchmarking, profiling and monitoring tools for PHP, MySQL and JavaScript using Docker-based technologies. From optimizing PHP 7 code to learning asynchronous programming, from implementing Modern SQL solutions to discovering Functional JavaScript techniques, this book covers all the latest developments in Faster Web technologies. You will not only learn to determine the best optimization strategies, but also how to implement them. Along the way, you will learn how to profile your PHP scripts with Blackfire.io, monitor your Web applications, measure database performance, optimize SQL queries, explore Functional JavaScript, boost Web server performance in general and optimize applications when there is nothing left to optimize by going beyond performance. After reading this book, you will know how to boost the performance of any Web application and make it part of what has come to be known as the Faster Web.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Faster Web – Getting Started
6
Querying a Modern SQL Database Efficiently
Index

UI design principles and patterns


Given all the previous factors and notions, certain UI design principles can now be abstracted and understood.

Firstly, speed is important to users. So, if no other optimization of your application can be done, make sure your users have the possibility to start using the application even before the initial page has finished rendering. This means getting to the First Meaningful Paint (FMP) of the page as quickly as possible in order to reduce the time it takes to get to the "time to interactive," which is the first moment when a user can start to interact with the application. One basic technique that can help you load the page's "above the fold" content before anything else is to place all blocking JavaScript at the end of the body of the page. Also, certain parts of the page can be cached for faster rendering or can be loaded in the browser through AJAX requests that are triggered with a periodical timer for example. Finally, HTTP/2's server push feature...