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gnugat/symfony-empty-edition
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The "Symfony Empty Edition" distribution

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Symfony Empty Edition
=====================

[](#symfony-empty-edition)

A skeleton allowing you to create an empty Symfony application: it is provided without any libraries or bundles (except for Symfony's FrameworkBundle).

You can then start building on it, and install the dependencies you need.

> **Note**: The [Symfony Standard Edition](https://github.com/symfony/symfony-standard)provides a big set of libraries and bundles (database, email, templating, etc). If you don't feel comfortable with picking your own yet, you should probably use it.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Use [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/) to create a new application:

```
composer create-project gnugat/symfony-empty-edition my-project

```

Differences with the Standard Edition
-------------------------------------

[](#differences-with-the-standard-edition)

- Only 2 bundles: `src/AppBundle` and `symfony/framework-bundle`, add the ones you really need
- Only 1 front controller (`web/app.php`), change the environment using the `SYMFONY_ENV` environment variable
- No annotations (can be brought back by installing `sensio/framework-extra-bundle`)

Use cases
---------

[](#use-cases)

There are many real world use cases for this distribution. Here's a small selection:

- tailored made applications: for applications that require "non standard" dependencies (e.g. Propel or Pomm for the database, etc)
- micro applications: for applications that don't need database, templating or mailing systems (Symfony can be a Micro Framework)
- legacy migrations: for applications that need to depend on legacy database, templating, etc while migrating to symfony
- teaching material: [better explained here](http://www.whitewashing.de/2014/04/24/symfony_hello_world.html)

###  Health Score

43

—

FairBetter than 90% of packages

Maintenance40

Moderate activity, may be stable

Popularity23

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity82

Battle-tested with a long release history

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 96.2% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~334 days

Recently: every ~0 days

Total

11

Last Release

536d ago

Major Versions

v2.1.0 → v3.0.02024-11-18

v3.0.0 → v4.0.02024-11-18

v4.0.0 → v5.0.02024-11-18

v5.0.0 → v6.0.02024-11-18

v6.0.0 → v7.0.02024-11-18

PHP version history (6 changes)v1.0.0PHP >=5.3.3

v2.0.0PHP ^5.5.9|^7.0

v3.0.0PHP ^7.1.3|^8.0

v4.0.0PHP ^7.2.5|^8.0

v5.0.0PHP ^8.0.2

v6.0.0PHP ^8.2

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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