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Symfony on PHP sovelluskehys (framework), joka on erittäin suosittu maailmanlaajuisesti. Järjestelmää ladattiin vuonna 2015 yli miljoona latausta joka kuukausi. Tämä ja yli 300 000 kehittäjän verkosto takaa että Symfony tulee pysymään relevanttina myös jatkossa.
Way back in November 2014 the Symfony team introduced the ExpressionLanguage component. It is essentially a simplified version of control structures that you use in the Twig templating language, producing a single value in the end.
The Symfony Framework is a web application framework. There are countless other options for doing the same thing, ranging from lightweight microframeworks to behemoths that include everything from their own ORM to a custom templating system.
Traditionally frameworks are used to create end user solutions, but where Symfony seems to be quite good at is targeting creators of developer platforms.
Symfony has shipped with the Assetic front end component for a number of years. Assetic still does what it does, but in virtually every technology corner of the internet, the front end assets are nowadays built with JavaScript. In my opinion Symfony should be no different.
If you're just getting started with Symfony then you get bombarded with quite a few terms and concepts. Two of them are Controllers and Services. Controllers are quite straightforward in their actions (ha-ha) and simply take requests and return responses.
Asynchronous programming has become a synonym for high performance in server side web applications in the recent years. This is largely due to the rising popularity of JavaScript and Node.js, in which everything is async by default.