#javascript

Note: This series is targeted at people trying to gain an advanced understanding of Quill and Parchment. If you're just trying to get started with an easy, well-featured editor, it might be good idea to check out Quill's Quickstart Guide or Cloning Medium with Parchment guide.

What is Quill?

QuillJS is a modern rich text editor built for compatibility and extensibility. It was created by Jason Chen and Byron Milligan and open sourced by Salesforce. Since then it has been used by hundreds of other companies and people to build fast, reliable, and rich editing experiences in a browser.

This is part 2 of a multi-part series of posts. You can read the first part, PHP for Javascript Developers - Syntax, here.

This post covers some of the runtime differences between PHP and javascript and equivalent parts of each languages standard library.

It's worth noting that PHP has an extensive standard library, far larger than common in javascript. For example, PHP has classes for many common data structures, extensive utilities for data manipulation, official extensions for database connections, file-handling, network requests, and more.

This is part 1 of a multi-part series of posts. You can read the second part, PHP for Javascript Developers - Runtime, here.

Foreword

A few years ago I started as frontend developer at Vanilla Forums knowing only frontend technologies like Javascript, Typescript, CSS, and HTML.

I've grown a lot as a developer since then, and a large part of that was becoming familiar with backend technologies like PHP & MySQL. Recently a colleague asked for a resource to be quickly get familiar with PHP. I searched around and didn't find the existing resources sufficient, so I've decided to start writing a series of posts on quickly picking up PHP from the perspective of a frontend developer.