MicroSymfony 🎶

Introduction 🖋

MicroSymfony is a Symfony 7.1 application skeleton on steroids, ready to use.

I have made a long blog post explaining all it contains; it will be the reference for documentation. I'll update it when needed:

• Introducing the MicroSymfony application template

So, this blog post is the official documentation. This readme is a teaser of what MicroSymfony contains.

If you want to use the last Symfony 6.4 LTS version in your composer.json file, replace all occurrences of 7.1 with 6.4, run composer up, and you are done.

Demo 🌈

Because a live demo is always better than all explanations. Here is it:

• Live demo at https://microsymfony.ovh
• Live demo powered by FrankenPHP at https://frankenphp.microsymfony.ovh

Quick-start with the Symfony binary 🎶

You must have the Symfony binary and composer installed locally.

To create a new project from the GitHub template, run:

composer create-project strangebuzz/microsymfony
cd microsymfony

Then start the PHP server with make:

make start

Or with Castor:

castor symfony:start

Open https://127.0.0.1:8000 (considering your 8000 port is free) and enjoy! 🙂

FrankenPHP 🧟‍

We can also use FrankenPHP to run MicroSymfony. You must have Docker installed locally.

Create a new project from the GitHub template, run:

docker run --rm -it -v $PWD:/app composer:latest create-project strangebuzz/microsymfony && cd microsymfony

Install the FrankenPHP Symfony runtime:

docker run --rm -it -v $PWD:/app composer:latest require runtime/frankenphp-symfony

Then run:

docker run \
    -e FRANKENPHP_CONFIG="worker ./public/index.php" \
    -e APP_RUNTIME=Runtime\\FrankenPhpSymfony\\Runtime \
    -v $PWD:/app \
    -p 80:80 -p 443:443 \
    -d \
    dunglas/frankenphp

Open https://localhost and enjoy! 🙂

PS: On Windows, replace $PWD by "%cd%".

Requirements ⚙

• PHP 8.2 (also works with PHP 8.3)
• The Symfony CLI

Optional requirements ⚙

• The Xdebug PHP extension if you want to run the code coverage report
• Castor task runner if you don't want to use Make and its Makefile

Stack 🔗

• Symfony 7.1
• Twig 3.8
• Hotwired stimulus 3.2 and Turbo 8.0
• PHPUnit 11.0
• The classless BareCSS CSS framework

PS: A fork of BareCSS was created to fix some issues as the project is not maintained anymore.

Features 🚀

MicroSymfony ships these features, ready to use:

• Two task runner
  • Make (source) (demo)
  • Castor (source) (demo)
• Static analysis with PHPStan
  • Configuration
• Coding standards with php-cs-fixer
  • Configuration
• Tests (demo)
  • Unit test example
  • Integration test example
  • Functional test example
  • API test example
  • E2E test example
• Code coverage at 100%
  • Output on CI
• GitHub CI (actions)
  • Tests job output
  • Lint job output
• Asset mapper+Stimulus (documentation)
  • Vanilla Js (source) (demo)
  • Fetch on a JSON endpoint of the application (source) (demo)
• A custom error template
  • Source
  • Demo

Notes 📒

Turbo forms are disabled in assets/app.js. To enable the feature for a given form, add the data-turbo="true" attribute to it. Or change the parameter Turbo.setFormMode to on to activate the feature globally. In both cases, your controller code has to be modified accordingly.

Other good practices 👌

• Using strict types in all PHP files (source)
• Using the ADR pattern in an action controller (source) (doc)
• The composer.json file is normalized with ergebnis/composer-normalize
• Use of the composer bin plugin to install and run php-cs-fixer

What it doesn't ship? ❌

• Doctrine (installation)

References 📚

• Front-end application development, Symfony-style(s) (dunglas.dev)
• Automated Test Coverage Checks with Travis, PHPUnit for Github Pull Requests (ocramius.github.io)
• Installing and using php-cs-fixer (strangebuzz.com)
• Castor, a journey across the sea of task runners (jolicode.com)
• Initializing your Symfony project with solid foundations (strangebuzz.com)
• Organizing your Symfony project tests (strangebuzz.com)
• What are your Symfony best practices? (strangebuzz.com)
• Setting a CI/CD workflow for a Symfony project thanks to the GitHub actions (strangebuzz.com)
• The Symfony Framework Best Practices (symfony.com)