In this tutorial, I will learn/use the new components of Symfony LAST (Live components, Asset mapper, Stimulus, and Turbo) by applying them to a concrete example, such as creating an extraterrestrial travel agency.
- Symfony 6.4
- PHP 8.2
If you've just downloaded the code, congratulations!!
To get it working, follow these steps:
Make sure you have Composer installed and then run:
composer install
composer dump-env dev # To create dev environment
The code comes with a compose.yaml file (for Docker) and we recommend using
Docker to boot a database container. You will still have PHP installed
locally, but you'll connect to a database inside Docker. This is optional,
but I think you'll love it!
First, make sure you have Docker installed and running. To start the container, run:
docker compose up -d
Next, build the database and the schema with:
# "symfony console" is equivalent to "bin/console"
# but its aware of your database container
symfony console doctrine:database:create --if-not-exists
symfony console doctrine:schema:create
symfony console doctrine:fixtures:load
If you do not want to use Docker, just make sure to start your own
database server and update the DATABASE_URL environment variable in
.env or .env.local before running the commands above. A simple way
to get the code running is to uncomment the DATABASE_URL="sqlite...
line in .env to use SQLite.
You can use Nginx or Apache, but Symfony's local web server works even better.
To install the Symfony local web server, follow "Downloading the Symfony client" instructions found here: https://symfony.com/download - you only need to do this once on your system.
Then, to start the web server, open a terminal, move into the project, and run:
symfony serve:start -d
(If this is your first time using this command, you may see an
error that you need to run symfony server:ca:install first).
Now check out the site at https://localhost:8000
Have fun!