Unless you’re pretty familiar with modern design patterns and middleware technologies frameworks are a steep learning curve. Everyone says their sh*t is easy to learn – It never is. Putting that aside Symfony is most definitely one of the top notch PHP frameworks out there. Not to mention Symfony knowledge indirectly translates at least partially to many other projects which make use of the Symfony ecosystem/components. Also Symfony will hand hold you through learning many of the middleware level technologies that just about all php projects are using these days like git (version control) and composer (dependency management). Furthermore, many third party libs are also used like Monolog (logging) and Swiftmailer (mailer) which are used in MANY other projects since they are essentially independent – stand-alone libraries – which can be used in any php context.
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