I am thinking about using Symfony to create a RESTful api. I want my app to only accept json and/or xml and just output either. I want my frontend to be completely separate in a separate directory.
Disclaimer: I know most frameworks only claim to be MVC, and that the definition/principles of MVC vary from developer to developer. Therefore, I've laid out my understanding of MVC.
How I picture MVC (taken from Martin Fowler):
- Make a strong separation between presentation (view & controller) and domain (model)
- Controller and view should (mostly) not communicate directly but through the model.
- Have views (and controllers) observe the model to allow multiple widgets to update without needed to communicate directly - Observer Synchronization.
In Symfony, the Controller returns a Response, and there really isn't a View class. They sort of combined the two.
My questions are:
- Is it possible to separate the controller into a controller and view?
- Can you make the controller not return something?
- Possible to not have any html/templates within the app/bundle?
- As I stated earlier, I want to keep frontend completely separate, therefore, I wouldn't use twig. I would use JS, SASS, React, etc. for my frontend stuff to make ajax calls to my Symfony api.
