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frederic D.
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frederic D.
PHP Symfony Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Secure, Flexible, and Stable"
5/5
What do you like best about Symfony?

Security, flexibility, and stability, along with an excellent developer experience. It also has a powerful dependency injection container. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Symfony?

Symfony has a steeper learning curve than many other PHP frameworks otherwise its perfect Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ayush Raj S.
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Ayush Raj S.
Full Stack Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Solid MVC and Bundles, but Boot-Up and Routing/View Wiring Need Work"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Symfony?

The MVC architecture and bundle design feel well thought out and complete, which makes the project straightforward and easy to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Symfony?

The boot-up time, and the way routes and views are wired together. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"A Great Starting Point for New Projects"
4/5
What do you like best about Symfony?

It gives you a good starting point to begin a project. It's free and does the work, so what more can you ask for? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Symfony?

To take advantage of some features that interest you, you must accept others that you don't. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simón B.
SB
Simón B.
AWS Cloud Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"A simple way to create an application in php"
5/5
What do you like best about Symfony?

It's intuitive command line to generates code, entity classes and controller classes. The easy way to integrate with multiple APIs and multiple frontend languages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Symfony?

It would by nice to have something like pyspark over symfony Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Blas C.
BC
Blas C.
Software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Best PHP framework I've ever work with"
5/5
What do you like best about Symfony?

Easy to work with and very customizable. It uses very good patterns and encourage you to apply them. Very good documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Symfony?

It might be a bit heavy for some use cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Francis Owusu B.
FB
Francis Owusu B.
Associate
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"The Quintessential PHP Framework"
4/5
What do you like best about Symfony?

In as much as Laravel gets most of the praise for being the face of PHP development, it is noteworthy how much it owes this to Symfony. Additionally, Symfony is very well documented and makes it easy to get into for PHP developers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Symfony?

Recent PHP 8 support on the Symfony 6 hasn't been good. I have had to tear down and restart projects countless times because of PHP versioning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mounsif M.
MM
Mounsif M.
Software engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Php made easier with Symfony"
4/5
What do you like best about Symfony?

The Symfony developer experience is great, reasonably simple debugging process as well as going live Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Symfony?

Managing big projects with Symfony can get tricky at times Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Usman A.
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Usman A.
Senior Software Engineer Sugar/ Suite CRM Web Developer PHP
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"1) Very helpful framework based on MVC 2) each and every thing is easy controllers models"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Symfony?

I like its user interface. I have built a Food management application in Symphony. I like its fast working. Symphony is good for building management type systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Symfony?

The thing I have disliked is its database management. Sometimes it becomes complex to handle large databases. There is not a proper way to handle creating fields and tables from the Front end. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mark Kevin B.
MB
Mark Kevin B.
Senior Web Developer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Symfony is great"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Symfony?

it is a components base. and very reusable on any other ever php library/framework Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Symfony?

i think documentation is not that great. i think that the documentation page needs some updates to make it more readable and easy to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Zahid B.
ZB
Zahid B.
S
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Symfony framework"
2.5/5
What do you like best about Symfony?

Its frontend view creation capability is too good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Symfony?

Its handling of MySQL database query structure is quite troublesome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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