Deployer is a deployment tool written in PHP to be used by PHP applications. Deployer ships with out-of-the-box support for various popular PHP frameworks, including Symfony. For a recent project of mine I needed to execute database migrations during deployment, and hence a simple rsync deployment was not enough. That’s where Deployer kicks in. Getting Started Add Deployer to your project with composer require deployer/deployer and then unleash the beast with php vendor/bin/dep, which starts the deployment pipeline.

If you are like most programmers, you don’t think of CSS as a programming language. It’s a description language, it describes the look of elements on a website. While developing your next super-cool web application you describe the visuals using CSS and it feels like you are writing a book instead of an application, losing sight of all the CSS as you keep developing. If you have already written CSS you most probably have…