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Symfony 5: The Fast Track book now available in PDF

February 10, 2020 · Published by Avatar of Fabien Potencier Fabien Potencier
UPDATE: check out symfony.com/book to learn about all the available formats and translations of the Symfony 5 book.

Symfony 5: The Fast Track is the best resource to learn how to develop modern web applications with Symfony 5. The book was published in paper a few weeks ago and, by popular demand, it's now available for purchase as a PDF file too.

These are all the ways you can purchase the book:

Thanks to a massive joint effort carried out by the Symfony community, the book will be available soon in many other languages, including Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Portuguese, Japanese, and Chinese.

The book translations are part of the Symfony diversity initiative. They will make Symfony more approachable to developers who struggle with English as a second language. We'd love to translate all Symfony docs, but it's impossible because of how fast docs are updated. The book contents are much more stable, so they allow for these translations.

Why should I pay for the PDF edition?

As originally announced, the book contents will be published for free on symfony.com in the coming weeks (we're still working on formatting the contents). That's why you may be asking why isn't the PDF edition available for free.

On January 2018, Symfony became an independent company. More precisely, a private commercial company called "Symfony SAS" sponsors the development of the Symfony framework.

This sponsoring includes the salaries of people like Fabien Potencier, the Symfony creator and project leader, Nicolas Grekas, the biggest code contributor and Javier Eguiluz, the biggest doc contributor.

The proceeds from the sale of the book, including the original Kickstarter campaign, go entirely to fund Symfony SAS business operations. In other words, purchasing the book (or gifting it to other developers) is a great way to learn Symfony and contribute to the project at the same time.

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Comments

Avatar of Massimiliano Arione
Massimiliano Arione said on Feb 10, 2020
Typo in Nicolas Grekas name
Avatar of Marco Silva
Marco Silva said on Feb 10, 2020
Any chance that the book will be available to buy on Kindle?
Avatar of Ortwin Paetzold
Ortwin Paetzold said on Feb 11, 2020
Marco,
you can buy the eBook from Leanpub and then load it into your Amazon Kindle library. I did that with the book from Matthias Noback "A Year With Symfony" 5 or 6 years ago. If I remember correctly the process how to do it was somewhere on the Amazon pages.
Avatar of Marco Silva
Marco Silva said on Feb 12, 2020
Thank you, Ortwin.
Will give it a try!
Avatar of Jorrit Schippers
Jorrit Schippers said on Feb 19, 2020
Congratulations with the release! Perhaps a link to Amazon.de is in order: https://www.amazon.de/Symfony-5-Track-Fabien-Potencier/dp/2918390372
Avatar of Javier Eguiluz
Javier Eguiluz Certified said on Feb 20, 2020
@Jorrit you are right! I've just updated this blog post with that link. Thanks!
Avatar of Mauricio Rother
Mauricio Rother said on Feb 22, 2020
Ortwin Paetzold unfortunately, the Symfony Book on Leanpub is only available on PDF format, as Fabien disabled the ePub and Mobi formats for some reason.

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