Initially the amount of Symfony Flex support will be limited, but if the community picks it up it can have a significant impact on future Symfony projects.

You will simply install packages with Composer and if the Bundle supports it, Composer will also author the necessary integration code and configuration. In essence it seems that Flex will allow for zero-config installation of Bundles. Details are not precise, as I was not attending conference, but the tag line for Symfony Flex is: 'Composition over Inheritance' And at Symfon圜on Berlin 2016 project lead Fabien Potencier announced what is known as Symfony Flex. The Symfony team has acknowledged this gap in their offering.

This has helped to make it the most popular PHP framework on the planet in 2016. Laravel is a very opinionated framework that enables high velocity development. Laravel, a framework using some Symfony components, on the other hand has been gaining ground exactly because of this. The microkernel and Silex are great for simplifying and creating simple web backends quickly, but they gave little 'magic' in terms of database access and so forth. Also in 2015 the Symfony microkernel was made available to the main project itself. And quite a few developers have already been using PHP microframeworks like Silex and Zend Expressive. Many developers have found the overhead of working with the Symfony full stack framework frustrating for simple data pumps and other applications. What Symfony has been lacking is tooling for Rapid Application Development (RAD), with minimal overhead for prototyping, etc. The components have been a success with wide adoption and so has the framework, bringing structure that scales to enterprise complexity. The Symfony project produces both decoupled components as well as a full stack PHP framework based on these components.

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