PHP Arena

A tiny playground for tinkering with PHP snippets in the browser

This is the source code repository of PHP Arena. You can find the app at loilo.github.io/php-arena.

Technologies

The core technologies this project uses are:

Technology	Purpose
Codemirror	A text/code editor, used for the editing area itself.
Nuxt	An application framework for Vue.js, used for prerendering, PWA support and overall application structure.
`@php-wasm/web`	WASM-compiled builds of the PHP interpreter, made by the WordPress team.
`lz-string`	A quick and space-efficient compression algorithm, used for serializing the current app state into a shareable URL in as few characters as possible.
GitHub Pages	This app does (purposefully) not generate any income. Therefore, free, scalable hosting is essential to keep it running.

Clone this repository and install its dependencies using npm.

npm ci

Start a local dev server with hot reloading:

npm run dev

Create a production-ready site in the dist folder:

npm run generate

Set the BASE_URL environment variable to create a build that can be hosted in a subfolder of a domain, e.g.:

BASE_URL=/php-arena/ npm run generate