The eighth edition of 'Symfony: The Fast Track' has been rewritten for Symfony 8.1. Key changes include an AI-powered spam detection chapter using Symfony AI with LLM integration (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral, Ollama), replacement of Doctrine fixtures with Zenstruck Foundry object factories for testing, dropping Webpack Encore and Node.js in favor of AssetMapper with importmaps, replacing a Preact SPA with Symfony UX Turbo for SPA-like navigation, and migrating the cron chapter to the Symfony Scheduler component. Deployment now targets Upsun (next-gen Platform.sh). The book is free online at symfony.com/book, available in five languages, and validated by automated tooling that builds and deploys the guestbook commit by commit.
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Fighting Spam with AITesting with Object FactoriesNo More Node.jsAn SPA Feel, without the SPAScheduling without CronSymfonyCloud: From Platform.sh to UpsunModern Symfony, EverywhereA Book that RunsRead It Now20.9K Impressions