Weekly News for Designers № 469

100 Favorite CSS Libraries, Frameworks and Tools – Our favorite CSS libraries, frameworks, resources and tools that have all been released this year (2018). No doubt, you’ll find something interesting!
100 Favorite CSS Libraries, Frameworks and Tools

The Grumpy Designer’s Bold Predictions for 2019 – The Grumpy Designers shares his thoughts on what we can expect this year – with a twist!
The Grumpy Designers Bold Predictions for 2019

Common CSS Issues For Front-End Projects – A list of common issues, with their solutions, as a handy reference guide for when you’re working on a new project.
Common CSS Issues For Front-End Projects

Dynamic Social Sharing Images – Learn how to reliably produce dynamic social media sharing images for all of our articles.
Dynamic Social Sharing Images

The Best and Worst Identities of 2018.
The Best and Worst Identities of 2018

Netflix Discovery Experience UX/UI Case Study – This UX study mainly focuses on how to make the user experience more pleasant for the everyday user.
Netflix Discovery Experience UX/UI Case Study

A Look Back at 12 Top Interface Design Trends in 2018 – A review of the 12 trends that dominated 2018 in UI design for websites and mobile apps.
A Look Back at 12 Top Interface Design Trends in 2018

The Best of the Web 2018 – The Awwwards Nominees of the Year 2018
The Best of the Web 2018

Screen Guru – A small web-based app for taking clean screenshots of any website.
small web-based app for taking clean screenshots of any website

New CSS Logical Properties – These new logical properties give us a lot more power to control our websites, no matter what type of language we use.
New CSS Logical Properties

Styling a Select Like It’s 2019 – With just a reasonable set of styles you can create a consistent and attractive select across all browsers.
Styling a Select Like Its 2019

State of Design Systems 2018.
State of Design Systems 2018

Vector Logo Zone – A resurce for finding free uniform SVG logos perfect for any website.
Vector Logo Zone

Magic Grid – A simple, lightweight Javascript library for dynamic grid layouts.
simple lightweight Javascript library for dynamic grid layouts

Twill – A new open-source CMS toolkit for Laravel.
Twill new open-source CMS toolkit for Laravel

Responsive Design and the Role of Development in Design by Andrew Couldwell.
Responsive Design and the Role of Development in Design

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Tomas Votruba: How To Convert All Your Symfony Service Configs to Autodiscovery

Tomas Votruba has a tutorial posted to his site showing you how to update your Symfony application to make all of your services use auto-discovery rather than hard-coded configuration settings.

Do you use Symfony autodiscovery services registration everywhere and your configs have no extra lines? Skip this post and rather read another one.

But if you have many configs with manual service registration, tagging, and autowiring, keep reading. I'll show you how you can convert them easily be new Symplify package.

He starts off by talking about a few e-commerce projects he's been working with lately that define service configurations manually. He then mentions a package that's been created to help convert these over easily to autodiscovery rather than having to change them one by one. He provides the instructions to use this package and mentions some of the things that could go wrong in the conversion process to keep an eye out for.

Rob Allen: Serverless PHP on AWS Lambda

Rob Allen has a tutorial posted to his site showing how you can run PHP using the serverless lambda functionality that Amazon Web Services provides.

There are other serverless providers, and AWS Lambda is the market leader, but until recently PHP support could most charitably described as cumbersome. That all changed at the end of 2018 with Lambda’s new runtime API and support for layers.

Let’s look at the practicalities of serverless PHP on Lambda with Serverless Framework.

If you'd like to skip to the "good parts" you can check out this repository of the resulting code. Otherwise, he provides a complete walkthrough of the setup and code required to get the lambda up and running:

  • compiling the PHP binary on an EC2 instance (so it will be compatible)
  • creating a bootstrap file for handling requests
  • setting up the yml configuration for the Serverless framework
  • writing the "hello world" function
  • deploying to the lambda system

Finally he shows how to call the "hello" function using the command line and the response you should receive.

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