For many years our company has used the Symfony framework as the foundation of our web applications. Our experience goes back to versions 1.2/1.4, so we have extensive knowledge and many completed projects built on it.

Symfony has become a market leader thanks to its countless advantages.

Popularity

Symfony is one of the most popular PHP frameworks. It is constantly updated and has a clear roadmap, so it is easy to predict how long a given Symfony version will be supported. Long-term support (LTS) releases are an additional advantage.
A huge community of users and contributors means countless learning materials and ready-made solutions. Excellent documentation makes it quick and easy to find the recommended way to solve the classic problems developers face.

Modularity

Thanks to its architecture, Symfony lets you build applications from ready-made libraries provided by the community. There is a huge number of proven bundles that quickly extend an application with ready-made features. This is invaluable.

Open source

Symfony is developed as open source software, which, combined with its popularity, means that any bugs are caught quickly and problems are fixed in a short time. Symfony’s source code is released under the MIT licence, so it can be used free of charge. This is a huge advantage, because Symfony and products built on it can be used, copied, modified and distributed for free.

High performance

With each new version of PHP, Symfony also puts great emphasis on performance and speed. The framework can be trimmed down to only the features an application or microservice needs. This makes Symfony ideal for building modern, high-performance solutions that are easy to scale and run in the cloud.

Flexibility

Symfony is a set of components that developers choose according to the application they are building. As a result, a console application built with Symfony will have completely different parts from a classic website built on the same framework.

Maturity

The Symfony project started in 2005 and immediately won developers’ recognition, which led to its popularity. After many years of development and many releases, Symfony is regarded as suitable both for hobby projects and for enterprise applications handling millions of visits.