The Symfony Front End

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The Symfony Front End

Developing Maintainable Templates With Symfony 2

About the Book

We take great care in our back end coding workflow, optimising, automating and abstracting as much as is possible. So why don't we do that with our front end code?

In this book, we'll take a look at the tools at our disposal that can help us take our front end workflow to the next level.

We’ll discuss a pragmatic approach to organising Twig templates, making them ready for internationalisation from the outset, styling forms, managing assets, integrating Bower and Gulp into the standard Symfony development process and common patterns that crop up in numerous Symfony applications.

Buckle up - it's going to be a wild ride!

This book is currently in active development - the published Table of Contents appears below, but the planned TOC is:

  • Introduction
    • Who Should Read This Book
    • Thanks
    • Conventions
  • But Why?
    • Introduction
    • Why Symfony?
    • Why Twig?
  • Introduction To Twig
    • Introduction
    • What Are Templates?
    • Template Caching
    • Template Inheritence and Layouts
    • Where To Store Templates
    • Template Naming
    • Referencing Templates
      • From Controllers
      • From Other Templates
  • Structuring Templates
    • Introduction
    • The Problem With The Default Templates
    • A Well Structured Base Template
    • Extending The Base Template
    • Different Templates Per Section
  • Translations
    • Introduction
    • Translation Organisation
    • Form Translation
    • Validation Translation
    • Translations Per Section
    • Easing Translation Usage
  • Form Themes
    • Introduction
    • Rendering Forms In Templates
    • Form Themes Explained
    • Form Theming In The Same File
    • Form Theming In A Separate File
    • Global Form Theming
    • Applying Multiple Themes
    • Applying Themes To Child Forms
  • Assets
    • Introduction
    • Node JS
      • Installing Node JS
    • Bower
      • Installing Bower
  • Bower
    • Introduction
    • Getting Vendor Assets Into Your Project
      • Searching For Dependencies
      • Installing Dependencies
    • The .bowerrc file
    • The bower.json file
    • Don't Commit Assets
    • Referencing Bower Assets
  • Gulp
    • Introduction
    • Plugin Architecture
    • The package.json File
    • Minifying Javascript
      • Using Minified Javascript In Your Project
    • Eliminating Duplicate Content
    • Processing SCSS
    • Using Processed SCSS In Your Project
    • Watching For Changes
    • Further Uses For Gulp
  • Putting It All Together
  • Common Patterns
    • Highlighting Current Navigation
    • Rendering A Sidebar of Categories
  • Conclusion

About the Author

Matthew Davis
Matthew Davis

Matthew Davis is a developer from Staffordshire in the United Kingdom, who has been working with PHP since 2004. He has a previous life as a musician having spent five years touring the world on cruise ships playing drums and keyboards. He can mostly be found lurking on Twitter.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
    • Who Should Read This Book?
    • Thanks
    • Conventions
  • But Why?
    • Why Symfony?
    • Why Twig Templates?

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