Over the last month or so I’ve been working on a project using the Symfony framework as it is sort of the basis for Laravel, apart from a few moments of pulling my hair out but that is mainly getting used to the database side of the framework as it uses Doctrine, I have really grown to like Symfony over Laravel as it feels a lot less bulky.
But this post really isn’t to discuss the merits of Symfony vs Laravel, it is however to talk about the caching Symfony does for its Twig templates as well as the Doctrine database queries, the caching does over all reduce system loads when sites built with Symfony are loaded and reloaded by its users.
In the dev environment changes to Twig templates and Doctrine queries aren’t cached quite as aggres...
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