The "Symfony Demo Application" is a reference application created to show how to develop Symfony applications following the recommended best practices.

• PHP 7.1.3 or higher;
• PDO-SQLite PHP extension enabled;
• and the usual Symfony application requirements.

Execute this command to install the project:

$ composer create-project symfony/symfony-demo

There's no need to configure anything to run the application. Just execute this command to run the built-in web server and access the application in your browser at http://localhost:8000:

$ cd symfony-demo/
$ make up

To see all commands available run:

$ cd symfony-demo/
$ make

Alternatively, you can configure a fully-featured web server like Nginx or Apache to run the application.

Execute this command to run tests:

$ cd symfony-demo/
$ make test

Or this command to run tests and get the coverage:

$ cd symfony-demo/
$ make test_cov

Integration with PHPStorm is straight forward.

Configure the servers so we can debug a request made from the browser:

Configure the CLI so we can run the tests:

Configure the test run itself: