Summary

In this chapter, we read about the practicality of Symfony and the basic reasons why big companies are using it. We read about the Symfony road map and its potential. We ran the built-in web server to be able to see our Symfony instance. We saw how to use Composer to install Symfony and how to check the installation afterward.

In the next chapter, I will walk you through the request/response life cycle and show you how to use Symfony to generate code and shape it based on your needs.