The 30 Most Useful Symfony Bundles (and making them even better)

August 7, 2014 · Published by

Javier Eguiluz

Last week we published a survey asking you to list the most useful community bundles for your day-to-day work. We received over 300 replies and more than
330 different bundles received at least one vote. Many thanks to all the developers who took part in the survey!

So, without further ado, here are the most useful bundles according to you, the Symfony community (in parenthesis, the percent of survey answers that noted each bundle):

So, what happens now?

First, the results of the survey will be used to make some key decisions over the new few months. No, we can't say more, but stay tuned ;).

But for starters, these bundles will participate in the second DX Hackday that will be announced very soon. We want the most useful Symfony community bundles to be even more incredible!

If you are the author of one of these bundles and want to participate in the DX initiative, start labeling issues with DX in your repositories and we'll find them for the hack day. If you're a user, create new issues with the DX label or prefix your issue with [DX] and we'll find those too.

Again, thanks to everyone that answered the survey and to all the developers that have spent time making these bundles great. You make the Symfony Community and using Symfony amazing.

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Comments

Artem Ostretsov said on Aug 7, 2014 at 06:59

A lot of reads for this weekends :) Thanks!

Kristof Van Cauwenbergh said on Aug 7, 2014 at 07:00

Can't wait to hear more about the decisions.

Massimiliano Arione said on Aug 7, 2014 at 07:02

Maybe August is not the best month to launch polls :-(

Greg Szczotka Certified said on Aug 7, 2014 at 07:13

Great list. Thanks!

Lukas Kahwe Smith said on Aug 7, 2014 at 10:08

Could be interesting to correlate those votes to ratings on http://knpbundles.com .. maybe mess with the algorithm to get the point values on http://knpbundles.com closer to these vote results.

Julian Reyes escrigas said on Aug 7, 2014 at 17:08

I can not believe there is no developers using mongodb. It might not be the only one who voted for the DoctrineMongoDBBundle

Revelator said on Aug 8, 2014 at 02:42

Thank you for this one :)

Saud Faisal said on Aug 9, 2014 at 21:34

I voted for DoctrineMongoDBBundle

Lynn van der Berg said on Aug 10, 2014 at 09:17

Most of those bundles are already from a few versions ago, but for new bundles it's hard to get them out there. I've tried on knp bundles, but long story short: I have to modify my bundle structure to match their preferences in order to use it there.

I can't simply change my structure because they don't follow composer rules for autoloading. Bundles are pretty flexible in Symfony2, yet to register them on that website, it has to be matched 1:1 with their terms, even if it works without following them.

What I'm looking for is an official way to index Symfony bundles, not because they follow someone's standards, but because they are good. A lot of bundles in this list are in my opinion not worthy of their places. They are either bloated, contain far too much logic for a bundle, try to do too much at once, implement bad design patterns etc. I want quality, not quantity.

Lukas Kahwe Smith said on Aug 10, 2014 at 12:39

#10

@Lynn: I am the first to agree that FOSRestBundle could use a major refactoring. I think the DX initiative can also be about figuring out a plan to refactor some of these Bundles into more sensible units.