Symfony as a web service fuels React for the View.
This sample app allows you to create/read/update/delete posts using a REST API with Symfony2 on the backend. The frontend is powered by React with Flux framework to keep a neat unidirectional data flow.
Using latest SensioLabs recommandations, this installation only uses one bundle AppBundle which will solely contain the logic of your application such as controllers or entities.
The assets live in the app/Resources directory. This is where for instance you will find the JSX for React but also the basic views for the initial request.
The sample application uses Sass and Bower but these are not required. I also slightly customized Bower and Composer directories to have a consistent naming in the root directory like:
- bower_modules
- composer_modules
- node_modules
A Gruntfile has also been setup which makes Assetic superfluous. Grunt will first copy assets in the web directory then watch for changes in Twig, Sass, JSX files, rebuild if necessary, and automatically reload the page which I find pretty awesome. The Gruntfile would have to be customized to fit the specific needs of your application.
The routing for the REST API is defined with annotations in the AppBundle/Controller/Front/PostController but for the frontend the routing happens in app/Resources/jsx/app-routes.jsx which loads pages as CommonJS modules from the pages directory thanks to Browserify.
- Set a virtual host (for example: dev.symfony-react.com)
- npm
- Ruby
curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php
npm install browserify -g
npm install bower -g
gem install sass
php composer.phar install
bower install
npm install
php app/console doctrine:database:create
php app/console doctrine:schema:update --force
grunt- Open a new tab with your virtual host (for example: dev.symfony-react.com/app_dev.php/)