These days, there are no projects that do not have a REST API for creating professional web services. REST ( Representational State Transfer) consists set of guidelines to build a web service, which can be used to modify or view specific information on the web without performing any server side operations. Using RESTful APIs saves huge amount of time. Twitter, Facebook, Google and thousands of companies use REST APIs. This is because REST is the most efficient and widespread standard in the creation of APIs for Internet services.

Anyone who wants to increase performance and security of your web page, I suggest to have Cloudflare setup in your DNS system. I have posted few articles to install paid SSL certificate for your web page, all which needs your complete support to maintain. But, Cloudflare provides free SSL certificates with a limited access (which is enough for any website) and it takes care most of the support that your web page needs. Most importantly, nowadays Google is providing better preferences for the web pages which has HTTPs as the protocol and more chances for your web page to appear on Google search.

Ionic is an open-source front-end SDK framework made for building hybrid mobile apps on cross platforms. Ionic is used for developing hybrid mobile apps using web technologies like HTML 5, CSS, Cordova and Sass, it is made of AngularJS 2. Both ionic and AngularJS provides some pre- built in components, which allows us to easily develop mobile apps. Here is the demo for creating mobile app using AngularJS and typescript on ionic V2 framework. The demo used here is my 9lessons.info blog as a mobile app. Follow this tutorial to easily build mobile app.

Now, it’s time to update your PHP web server. We had few vulnerabilities with previous versions like openSSL and others. PHP 7 is very fast, advanced and has improved execution time. XAMPP is the most popular PHP development environment, it saves time and effort by providing easy way to install Apache-MySQL-PHP framework. This post helps you how to install XAMPP 7.0 with Redis and memcached extensions for Ubuntu and Mac operating systems. Follow the below steps to install XAMPP.

SSL(Secure Sockets Layer) certificate is must for any e-commerce or data based applications. Because, nowadays to run any social applications like Google or Facebook, SSL/HTTPS URL is must to get geo location or any map related stuff. Long time back, I have already discussed with the installation of SSL certificate. But, I missed few configuration settings to get A+ rating for the website. A+ rating helps in standard approval for the website to work smoothly in all and any platform.