ReactPHP Series

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A series of blog articles covering ReactPHP: from the basics to the real application examples:

Basics

• Asynchronous PHP: Why?

Core components

• Event loop and timers
• Streams
• Promises
• Managing promises
• Understanding event loop ticks

Network components

• Chat on sockets: server
• Chat on sockets: client
• UDP chat

Protocol components

• Video streaming server
• HTTP server middleware
• Using router with HTTP server
• Parallel downloads with async HTTP requests
• Resolving DNS asynchronously

Utility components

• Filesystem
• Promise-based cache
• Cancelling promises with timers
• Managing child processes
• Sending emails with child processes
• PromiseStream: from promise to stream and vice versa

Fast web scraping

• Implementing scraper
• Throttling requests
• Using proxy

Building Memcached client

• Making requests and handling responses
• Errors and connection handling
• Emitting events
• Unit-testing promises