Fabien Potencier

Symfony 4: Unpack the Packs

We get a lot of positive feedback on Symfony 4. You love the new directory structure. You love the simplicity of using services without configuring anything. And you love the automation that Flex provides. It makes me happy and proud.

Symfony 4: Performance out of the Box

Performance is an interesting and sensitive topic. Suffice to say that most projects should not care too much; modern PHP frameworks are fast enough for most use cases and projects. And PHP 7 performance improvements help a lot as well. But people like to compare…

Symfony Flex Private Repositories

Many Flex early adopters asked for it. The Symfony Flex server now supports private recipes repositories as announced during my keynote at SymfonyCon Cluj.

Creating a repository for your private recipes is easy. Create a regular Github…

Symfony 4: An Update on Flex

Symfony 4 is just around the corner. And Symfony Flex is one of the main selling points for the upgrade. Developers love the new philosophy. And a lot of changes happened since my last blog post. Let me recap the recent changes that you might not be aware of. Most of these…

Symfony 4: Directory Structure Updates

Update: This article has been updated to add missing steps.

After a long discussion in the community, the directory structure has been slightly changed.

Symfony 4: A quick Demo

Time to test Symfony 4… or at least let’s test the experience of developing Symfony 4 projects with Symfony 3.3. Keep in mind that all the tools are in preview mode. Features might evolve over time. I’m waiting for your feedback! The first stable version of Symfony Flex will not be…

Symfony 4 : A small screencast…

Last week, I published the repositories for the Symfony recipes. The main repository is at https://github.com/symfony/recipes, and the contrib one at https://github.com/symfony/recipes-contrib. Both are public. Additions and feedback welcomed.

Symfony 4: Contributing Recipes

Symfony Flex is not Open-Sourced yet, but I can already feel the excitement in the community. I have also received some feedback via Twitter, Slack, and email during the last few days. That makes me really happy!

Symfony 4: Automate your Workflow

Symfony 4’s most “innovative” feature is the way it drives the day-to-day application management. No more tedious copy/paste from README files. No more boilerplate code. Automation to the max. On a curated list of Composer packages.

Symfony 4: Directory Structure

Symfony 3 came with a slightly different directory structure than Symfony 2. Symfony 4 will also come with a reworked directory structure. Mostly incremental adjustments to support new features and best practices.