Better Resource (Asset) Versioning Series

Assets, i.e. scripts, styles, and fonts, need a version number in order for them to bust through the web hosting cache and for users to receive the latest file(s). In this series of hands-on labs, we’ll take a look at versioning. Then we’ll dive into better asset versioning techniques to eliminate redundancy and manual processes, automate the versioning, improve your build efficiency, and take care of the ding we get on website speed testing sites, such as Pingdom.

The Prerequisites

Let’s get you ready to do this series to ensure you get the most out of it.

15 Episodes
02:50:33 Runtime

PHP String Building and Processing Basics

As developers, we need to build and process dynamic strings. Our code pulls in information from various sources, assembles it, and then renders it out to the browser. PHP provides a powerful function library to help us. In this hands-on lab, you will learn about the basics of PHP string building and processing.

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13 Episodes
01:58:54 Runtime

Doing More With PHP String Processing

There are many times when we need to more complex processing with strings. PHP provides us with the instructions we need to verify and manipulate strings. In this hands-on lab, you will continue learning about processing strings in PHP.

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The Series Hands-on Labs

Let’s get to work and improve your workflow and versioning. Progress through the labs in order.

14 Episodes
02:27:07 Runtime

Automate Asset Versioning - Better Asset Versioning

In Part 1 of the Better Asset Versioning, we are looking at the version number that is applied to each asset resource, i.e. our scripts, fonts, and stylesheets. We are highly inefficient with this process. Let's eliminate the hard coding of version numbers when we enqueue. Let's build a better strategy for version numbers when in development mode. Let's automate versioning and improve our build process.

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17 Episodes
03:18:22 Runtime

Remove Query String from Static Resource URL

In Part 2 of the Better Asset Versioning series, let's dive into how to remove the query strings, i.e. the ?ver=1.0.0 from the static resources. Static resources are the scripts, fonts, styles that we enqueue. When you run speed tests on sites like Pingdom, a common ding to the performance score is this very topic. Let's build a plugin that removes the query string and places it inline as part of the static URL.

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