
We explain what Symfony is and what you can achieve
Symfony is the leading PHP framework for building websites and web applications. The Symfony community is made up of 600,000 developers located in more than 120 countries, committed to helping all colleagues overcome every challenge.
Symfony's philosophy is to embrace and promote professionalism, best practices, standardization, and application interoperability.
Symfony has some features that could be interesting and attractive for some developers, among these are:
- Your system based on Model-View-Controller
- The high performance achieved when developing a web application
- A flexible URI routing
- Create a code that is reusable and therefore easier to maintain
- It allows you to manage sessions and track errors.
- Full-featured database classes with cross-platform support
- It has a large community of developers that remains active
- It has a set of decoupled and reusable components.
- Standardization and interoperability of applications
- Security against cross-site request forgery and other attacks

If you are a beginner, the best option for you will be Laravel, for these reasons:
- "It's easy to learn and has simpler syntax and better learning materials," they explained in a Toptal article.
- If you are building a product from scratch, as Laravel is perfect for rapid application development.
- Laravel developers are easy to find.
- Laravel has the simplest installation process than any other framework.
“Both PHP Laravel and Symfony PHP are built on the MVC architecture, but in terms of component reuse and code modularity, Symfony has an advantage over Laravel in this regard. It structures the program in an organized way and becomes the perfect fit for larger and more complex projects”, they explained on the Reach Studios portal.
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