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 21K GitHub stars and 7K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Symfony's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Symfony?

Companies

355 companies use Symfony in their tech stacks, including eTobb, Improvely, and Chooos.

Developers

267 developers use Symfony.

Symfony Integrations

PHP, Sentry, Bugsnag, Logmatic, and Deployer 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.

Lucas Litton

Chief Executive Officer at Shuttlestack Studios, Inc. · a month ago | 3 upvotes · 1.8K views

Shuttlestack

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 · 2 months ago | 2 upvotes · 1.4K views

Nautal

PHP

Symfony

#Hexagonal

#DDD

Symfony is probably one of 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

Simone Marcato

Partner & CTO at Hevelop · 6 months ago | 2 upvotes · 1.3K views

Hevelop

Symfony

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

shridhardalavi

a year ago | 1 upvotes · 1.3K views

Symfony

Symfony is a set of PHP Components, a Web Application framework, a Philosophy, and a Community — all working together in harmony A framework is a collection of universal, reusable programs that accomplish particular tasks to facilitate the development of software applications. A framework is a pledge of quality, upgradability and maintainability of applications at lower cost. Applications developed using a framework are interoperable with market standards. Symfony

Matthew Clarkson

Director at Paper Planes · 4 years ago | 1 upvotes · 1.3K views

Hilenium

Symfony

The RESTful backend for Hilenium was built using the Symfony2 framework. Symfony

Oliver Stark

4 years ago | 1 upvotes · 1.3K views

Symfony

Solid components backed by a great community and visionary company (sensio labs). Symfony

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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