Bundles in Symfony Development – Key Factor for App Extensibility

 Symfony framework is known for its flexibility and the key feature that lies behind the Symfony nature are bundles. It’s mostly the framework bundles that make Symfony development so productive. IT application development with Symfony have never been as simple and fast as it is today. A software development company can take advantage of the bundle-structure architecture to quickly build and scale up web applications.

What is a bundle in Symfony development?

Bundles in Symfony mean plugins that ensure modular structure of the framework and Symfony-based applications.

Why did the Symfony project team call them bundles?

The main difference between a bundle and a simple plugin is that bundles constitute the framework itself and anything that forms a part of a Symfony application is a bundle.

What are the inherent Symfony bundles?

The Standard Edition of Symfony includes the following bundles:

• SensioFrameworkExtraBundle supports MVC development model and enhances controller experience. This bundle helps to simplify the development process by abandoning view classes for simple tasks.
• SensioGeneratorBundle creates a user-friendly environment for working with the command line. The following bundle allows web developers to build a framework for new bundles, handle classes and Doctrine entities, and create a CRUD controller.
• JMSSecurityExtraBundle is a security-oriented bundle that allows web developers to introduce app security via expressions, enables methods security authorization and handle security issues via annotations.
• DoctrineFixturesBundle ensures interaction with Doctrine and is aimed at persisting information into a database by writing and running fixtures.
• DoctrineMigrationsBundle is a bundle, used for migrating data and extending Symfony data storage. This bundle performs automatic migrations by processing Doctrine mapping data.
• DoctrineMongoDBBundle serves for persisting and fetching objects to/from MongoDB, processing raw PHP classes and executing object mapping.

Symfony gives an opportunity to quickly configure bundles and extend already exciting bundles, thus giving a boost in productivity metrics and encouraging faster development time.