Top 23 Symfony Open-Source Projects

1. Symfony

   1 176 30,402 10.0 PHP

   The Symfony PHP framework

   

   Project mention: Storyblok unveils new PHP packages in collaboration with SensioLabs | dev.to | 2025-03-27

   That's why we're thrilled to announce that long with our partners SensioLabs, creators of Symfony, we've completely rebuilt our PHP packages from the ground up.

2. InfluxDB

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3. Grav

   2 95 15,044 7.4 PHP

   Modern, Crazy Fast, Ridiculously Easy and Amazingly Powerful Flat-File CMS powered by PHP, Markdown, Twig, and Symfony

   

   Project mention: A new path forward for WordPress, and for the open web | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-07

   Migrating to SSG is definitely one of the options!

   I do wonder what other CMSes people do enjoy, though. My blog runs on Grav, a flat file CMS that still allows me to easily keep the content in Git, while also having some dynamic content and search (and optionally an admin UI): https://getgrav.org/

4. Wallabag

   3 74 11,575 9.9 PHP

   wallabag is a self hostable application for saving web pages: Save and classify articles. Read them later. Freely.

   

   Project mention: Mozilla shutdown Pocket on July 8, 2025 | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-22

   Since I'm slowly moving to self-hosting, I'll be installing Wallabag[0] most probably.

   I also integrated my Kobo with Pocket with glee, but it turned into gloom when my saves ate all of the free memory of the reader :)

   [0]: https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag

5. console

   4 4 9,807 8.3 PHP

   Eases the creation of beautiful and testable command line interfaces

   

6. API Platform

   5 55 8,930 6.5 TypeScript

   🕸️ Create REST and GraphQL APIs, scaffold Jamstack webapps, stream changes in real-time.

   

   Project mention: API Platform – The API-first framework | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-30

7. http-foundation

   6 5 8,668 7.6 PHP

   Defines an object-oriented layer for the HTTP specification

   

8. event-dispatcher

   7 1 8,555 3.5 PHP

   Provides tools that allow your application components to communicate with each other by dispatching events and listening to them (by symfony)

   

9. SaaSHub

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10. Sylius

    8 30 8,244 10.0 PHP

    Headless open-source eCommerce platform on top of PHP/Symfony/API Platform

    

11. http-kernel

    9 6 8,143 9.0 PHP

    Provides a structured process for converting a Request into a Response

    

12. polyfill-mbstring

    10 1 7,857 5.2 PHP

    Symfony polyfill for the Mbstring extension

    

13. routing

    11 3 7,633 6.7 PHP

    Maps an HTTP request to a set of configuration variables

    

14. process

    12 1 7,474 6.8 PHP

    Executes commands in sub-processes (by symfony)

    

15. Symfony VarDumper

    13 2 7,442 7.5 PHP

    Provides mechanisms for walking through any arbitrary PHP variable

    

    Project mention: The "never" Type in PHP | dev.to | 2025-06-19

    This functionality is made available via the symfony/var-dumper package. Let's take a look at how the never type is used in the dd function (https://github.com/symfony/var-dumper/blob/7.3/Resources/functions/dump.php):

16. translation

    14 1 6,628 6.6 PHP

    Provides tools to internationalize your application

    

17. php-pm

    15 2 6,564 2.1 PHP

    PPM is a process manager, supercharger and load balancer for modern PHP applications.

    

18. DoctrineBundle

    16 2 4,774 7.9 PHP

    Symfony Bundle for Doctrine ORM and DBAL

    

    Project mention: Ignore custom indexes on Doctrine DBAL 4 | dev.to | 2024-07-27

    I found a GitHub issue about platform_service config replacement here https://github.com/doctrine/DoctrineBundle/issues/1656.

19. filesystem

    17 1 4,639 3.6 PHP

    Provides basic utilities for the filesystem (by symfony)

    

20. config

    18 1 4,263 6.4 PHP

    Helps you find, load, combine, autofill and validate configuration values of any kind (by symfony)

    

21. DoctrineMigrationsBundle

    19 1 4,255 7.0 PHP

    Symfony integration for the doctrine/migrations library

    

22. flex

    20 5 4,208 7.3 PHP

    Composer plugin for Symfony (by symfony)

    

    Project mention: How Symfony Flex Works | dev.to | 2025-03-23

    If a recipe is found, the instructions in its manifest are executed using various configurators. The console will display a message like:

23. EasyAdminBundle

    21 7 4,158 9.6 PHP

    EasyAdmin is a fast, beautiful and modern admin generator for Symfony applications.

    

    Project mention: How to Make ChatGPT Codex Work with PHP and Symfony | dev.to | 2025-06-05

    You can see a real-world example of the AGENTS.md file I use in one of my projects. As you run tasks, update this file continuously with new instructions to prevent Codex from making the same mistakes again.

24. Bolt

    22 1 4,156 3.1 PHP

    Bolt is a simple CMS written in PHP. It is based on Silex and Symfony components, uses Twig and either SQLite, MySQL or PostgreSQL. (by bolt)

    

25. Symfony DI

    23 0 4,149 8.3 PHP

    Allows you to standardize and centralize the way objects are constructed in your application

    

26. SaaSHub

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