The Symfony Best practices 4.1.x

The Symfony Framework Best Practices

The Symfony Framework is well-known for being really flexible and is used to build micro-sites and enterprise applications that handle billions of connections and even as the basis for other frameworks. Since its release in July 2011, the community has learned a lot about what’s possible and how to do things best.

These community resources – like blog posts or presentations – have created an unofficial set of recommendations for developing Symfony applications. Unfortunately, a lot of these recommendations are unneeded for web applications. Much of the time, they unnecessarily overcomplicate things and don’t follow the original pragmatic philosophy of Symfony.

What is this Guide About?

This guide aims to fix that by describing the best practices for developing web apps with the Symfony full-stack Framework. These are best practices that fit the philosophy of the framework as envisioned by its original creator Fabien Potencier.