Why developers like Symfony

What is Symfony?

Symfony is written with speed and flexibility in mind. It allows developers to build better and easy to maintain websites with PHP. Symfony can be used to develop all kind of websites, from your personal blog to high traffic ones like Dailymotion or Yahoo! Answers.

Symfony is a tool in the Frameworks (Full Stack) category of a tech stack.

Symfony is an open source tool with 21.2K GitHub stars and 7.1K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Symfony's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Symfony?

Companies

491 companies reportedly use Symfony in their tech stacks, including Typeform, Docplanner, and Webedia.

Developers

1461 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Symfony.

Symfony Integrations

Bugsnag, Sentry, Airbrake, KeyCDN, and PHP are some of the popular tools that integrate with Symfony. Here's a list of all 9 tools that integrate with Symfony.

Why developers like Symfony?

Here’s a list of reasons why companies and developers use Symfony

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Symfony Reviews

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Symfony in their tech stack.

Benjamin Bernard-Bouissières

Web Developer at ipexia · 5 days ago | 11 upvotes · 1.1K views

ipexia

PythonAnywhere

Symfony

Python

Django

I really love Django because it is really fast to create a web application from scratch and it has a lot a facilities like the ORM or the Admin module ! The Python language is really easy to read and powerful, that's why I prefer Django over Symfony.

I use Django at work to make tools for the technicians but I also use it for me to build my personal website which I host on PythonAnywhere.

Accueil | Benbb96

Samuel Webster

Principal Developer at Colart · a month ago | 6 upvotes · 5K views

WordPress

RabbitMQ

Symfony

WooCommerce

#Pim

We needed our e-commerce platform (built using WooCommerce) to be able to keep products in sync with our #pim (provided by #akeneo) which is built in Symfony . We hooked into the kernel.event_listener to send RabbitMQ messages to a WordPress API endpoint that triggers the updated product to rebuild with fresh data.

Lucas Litton

Chief Executive Officer at Shuttlestack Studios, Inc. · 2 months ago | 3 upvotes · 3.9K views

Aeson

Symfony

PHP

Meteor

We use Meteor because we were trying to find a really good framework for Node.js. We were originally building our applications with PHP and Symfony but decided to switch over to Node. We needed a framework that can be just as suiting as Symfony was.

Jaume Bosch

CTO at Nautal.com · 4 months ago | 2 upvotes · 2.2K views

Nautal

PHP

Symfony

#Hexagonal

#DDD

Symfony is probably the most popular PHP frameworks nowadays. We began with Symfony 2.6 and during 2019 we migrated to Symfony 4.2, also introducing #DDD and hexagonal to our development process. Thanks to this improvements we could manage a quite big company with a small development team.

Simone Marcato

Partner & CTO at Hevelop · 8 months ago | 2 upvotes · 2.2K views

Hevelop

Symfony

We developed our ERP with Symfony, then we use this framework and its components in e-commerce customization. Symfony

Romeu Godoi

at Logics Software · 25 days ago | 2 upvotes · 621 views

Symfony

I use Symfony for years and I think this is the best framework PHP ever with more powerful of scalability and freedom, specially the newest versions.

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Symfony Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Symfony?

Laravel

Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We believe development must be an enjoyable, creative experience to be truly fulfilling. Laravel attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.

Spring

A key element of Spring is infrastructural support at the application level: Spring focuses on the "plumbing" of enterprise applications so that teams can focus on application-level business logic, without unnecessary ties to specific deployment environments.

Django

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

WordPress

The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.

Phalcon

Phalcon is a web framework implemented as a C extension offering high performance and lower resource consumption.

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