Ddd Apiplatform Bundle Laravel Package

Product Decisions This Supports

• Adoption of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) patterns in API development, enabling cleaner separation of domain logic and infrastructure concerns.
• Roadmap for API Platform integration with DDD, reducing boilerplate for state providers, pagination, and query handling.
• Build vs. Buy: Justifies buying (leveraging this bundle) over building custom DDD integration for API Platform, saving dev time and reducing technical debt.
• Use cases:
  • Building scalable, maintainable APIs with DDD principles.
  • Teams already using API Platform and Symfony (v7/8) with PHP 8.2+.
  • Projects requiring paginated responses via Paginator in state providers.
  • Microservices or layered architectures where domain logic is decoupled from API concerns.

When to Consider This Package

• Avoid if:
  • Your team is not using API Platform or Symfony (v7/8).
  • You require advanced DDD features (e.g., event sourcing, CQRS) beyond basic state providers and pagination.
  • Your project uses PHP < 8.2 or lacks symfony/framework-bundle.
  • You need high customization—this bundle is lightweight and opinionated (e.g., no built-in support for filters, validation, or complex domain events).
• Look elsewhere if:
  • You prefer API Platform’s built-in pagination (this bundle adds minimal value if not using DDD).
  • Your stack includes alternative frameworks (e.g., Laravel, NestJS) or non-Symfony PHP.
  • You need enterprise-grade DDD tools (e.g., Spatie’s DDD, CQRS libraries).

How to Pitch It (Stakeholders)

For Executives: "This bundle lets us integrate Domain-Driven Design (DDD) with API Platform seamlessly, reducing development time for paginated APIs and state providers. By adopting it, we align with modern DDD practices while leveraging Symfony’s ecosystem—cutting costs on custom infrastructure and improving long-term maintainability. Low risk (MIT license, minimal dependencies), high reward for teams already using API Platform."

For Engineering: "The ddd-apiplatform-bundle automates service wiring for DDD + API Platform, giving us a Paginator for state providers out of the box. No more reinventing pagination or query handling—just inject the QueryBus and return a Paginator. Works with Symfony 7/8 and PHP 8.2+. Ideal if we’re using DDD and want to avoid boilerplate. Trade-off: Lightweight but not a full DDD framework (e.g., no event handling)."