Front Render Bundle

Render Front Application (AngularJs, BackboneJs...) through Symfony 2 Application

Installation

Step 1: Download the Bundle

Open a command console, enter your project directory and execute the following command to download the latest stable version of this bundle:

$ composer require chris13/front-render-bundle "~1"

This command requires you to have Composer installed globally, as explained in the installation chapter of the Composer documentation.

Step 2: Enable the Bundle

Then, enable the bundle by adding it to the list of registered bundles in the app/AppKernel.php file of your project:

<?php
// app/AppKernel.php

// ...
class AppKernel extends Kernel
{
    public function registerBundles()
    {
        $bundles = array(
            // ...

            new Chris\Bundle\FrontRenderBundle\FrontRenderBundle(),
        );

        // ...
    }

    // ...
}

Configure the bundle

2 differents solutions to configure the path to Front Application :

-Configuration by the config.yml

-Configuration by listener

Usage

Render your front application :

<?php

namespace AppBundle\Controller;

use Sensio\Bundle\FrameworkExtraBundle\Configuration\Route;
use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\Controller;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;

class DefaultController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * @Route("/", name="homepage")
     */
    public function indexAction(Request $request)
    {
        $frontRender = $this->get('front_render_bundle.front_render');

        //Optional
        $frontRender
            ->setParameters(
            [
                'param' => 'param',
            ]
        );

        return new Response($frontRender->render());
    }
}

Tests

Run Unit Test in the bundle:

$ ./bin/phpunit --debug -c ./