Prefixes and Suffixes Do Not Belong in Interface Names

Using the I prefix or Interface suffix for interfaces, as well as Abstract for abstract classes, is an anti-pattern. It has no place in clean code. Differentiating interface names, in fact, obscures OOP principles, introduces noise into the code, and complicates development. Here are the reasons.

3 years ago  ·  16 minutes to read

I-prefixes disappear from interface names

In Nette, interfaces were named with the letter I at the beginning (e.g. IRequest). A couple of years ago, an extremely slow and long term process began, which quietly while maintaining backwards compatibility is getting rid of these prefixes. How exactly is this happening and why?

3 years ago  ·  5 minutes to read

Latte 3: an impressive leap

The fanfare resounds through the hall and Latte 3 comes on the scene. With a completely rewritten compiler. The new version represents the biggest evolutionary leap ever made in Latte.

3 years ago  ·  7 minutes to read

For less screaming in the code

The Nette coding style is undergoing a minor change: for class constants, the PascalCase notation is now used instead of the original SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE.

3 years ago  ·  4 minutes to read

Nette Vite – using Nette with Vite for rapid local development

Vite is a next-generation frontend tool for loading JS and CSS files directly from sources, without the need for compilation and using modern standards.

4 years ago  ·  10 minutes to read

Dependent selectboxes elegantly in Nette and pure JS

How to create chained select boxes, where after selecting a value in one the options are dynamically updated in the other? This is an easy task in Nette and pure JavaScript. We will show a solution that is clean, reusable end secure.

4 years ago  ·  8 minutes to read

New plugin NEON Nette Support

IDE plugins bring comfort to your development and simplify your work. I enjoy developing plugins for the IntelliJ platform and would like to deliver the best products possible. Today I'm going to introduce a new plugin NEON Nette Support for PhpStorm that is lightning fast even in large projects…

4 years ago  ·  9 minutes to read

Tracy 2.9 and evolution of the iconic screen

Tracy's distinctive red screen has barely changed in the 15 years of its existence, and it's an exaggeration to say that the evolution has been in search of the ideal shade of red. In fact, there have been plenty of minor visual improvements, but not until version 2.9 has something major been…

4 years ago  ·  4 minutes to read

Nette Http 3.1: much smarter sessions

Nette has always approached sessions with caution. It started them automatically only when the user needed them, in order to conserve server resources. The new version 3.1 takes this philosophy even further and brings improvements that make working with sessions even more efficient.

4 years ago  ·  6 minutes to read

How to pass app directory paths to services

In this very short article, I will show you 2 simple ways how to pass directory constants to services, it's very elementary thing that most of you know, but it never hurts to see it again.

4 years ago  ·  4 minutes to read

Nette Utils 3.2 with PHP 8.1 support and Type

Nette libraries always support new PHP versions far in advance. The Nette Utils 3.2 package is now ready for PHP 8.1. What has changed?

4 years ago  ·  2 minutes to read

PhpGenerator 3.6: news from PHP 8.1 and more

PhpGenerator version 3.6 brings support for all the new features of the upcoming PHP 8.1. But that's not all!

4 years ago  ·  6 minutes to read

Nette Tester 2.4.0 is out

A new smaller release is out. And since there are no posts on the blog about the patches from 2.3.1 to 2.3.5, I will address them in this post too. Let's move from the past to the present.

4 years ago  ·  5 minutes to read

News in Nette Schema 1.2

Nette Schema is the youngest addition to the Nette family. The library was originally created for the needs of Nette DI, ie to validate and normalize the input configuration files and to inform about possible errors.

4 years ago  ·  6 minutes to read

News in PhpGenerator 3.5

PhpGenerator has learned all the language features of PHP 8. Let's see how you can start using them right away.

4 years ago  ·  3 minutes to read

News in Nette Security 3.1

You'll be amazed at the horizons of this new version, and how easy it is to build web applications that don't need a session.

4 years ago  ·  6 minutes to read

News in Nette Forms 3.1

The vulnerability of a CSRF is based on the trick that the form is spoofed by an attacker and sent from his site, ie from another domain, against which Nette has always had protection, which is turned on by the method addProtection(). This protection is gradually being replaced by a new and fully…

4 years ago  ·  4 minutes to read

News in Nette Http 3.1

News in Nette Http version 3.1 mainly concerns the current development of browsers in relation to cookies. Current browsers finally work without bugs with the SameSite flag, so Nette automatically sends it.

4 years ago  ·  3 minutes to read

News in Nette Database 3.1

With an elegant way of working with a transaction comes a new method transaction(). You pass in a callback that runs in the transaction. If any exception is thrown, the transaction is rolled back. If everything goes well, the transaction will be committed.

4 years ago  ·  2 minutes to read

News in Nette Utils 3.2

One of the main new features of Nette Utils 3.2 is the new static class Nette\Utils\Floats with useful functions for comparing decimal numbers.

4 years ago  ·  2 minutes to read

Services don't need names

I love Nette Framework's dependency injection solution. I really do. This post is here to share this passion, explaining why I think it is the best DI solution in today's PHP ecosystem.

4 years ago  ·  20 minutes to read