bundle-organization

Project / Bundle Organization (Symfony 7)

Modern Symfony apps are NOT bundles

Since Symfony 4, application code lives in src/ under the App\ namespace — not in a custom bundle. Create a bundle only for reusable library code shared across projects. For an application, organize src/ by feature/module, not by technical type.

src/
├── Kernel.php
├── Sales/                       # bounded context / module
│   ├── Domain/
│   ├── Application/
│   ├── Infrastructure/
│   └── UI/                      # controllers, console commands, CLI
├── Billing/
│   └── ...
└── Shared/                      # cross-cutting kernel: base value objects, bus, ids

config/
├── packages/                    # per-bundle config (doctrine.yaml, security.yaml, ...)
│   └── prod/ · dev/ · test/     # env overrides
├── routes/                      # route imports
├── services.yaml                # app service wiring
└── bundles.php                  # registered bundles

❌ Don't organize purely by technical layer at the top level

src/
├── Controller/        # ❌ for a large app, everything-in-one-folder doesn't scale
├── Entity/
├── Repository/
└── Service/

This is fine for a tiny app, but in a domain of any size it scatters one feature across five folders. Group by module first, then layer inside.

Service configuration

Rely on Symfony's defaults — autowiring + autoconfiguration + resource autodiscovery:

# config/services.yaml
services:
    _defaults:
        autowire: true
        autoconfigure: true

    App\:
        resource: '../src/'
        exclude:
            - '../src/Kernel.php'
            - '../src/**/Domain/**/{Entity,ValueObject}'   # plain objects, not services

• Bind an interface to an implementation only when there's a choice to make:

    App\Sales\Domain\OrderRepository: '@App\Sales\Infrastructure\Doctrine\DoctrineOrderRepository'

• Inject scalar config with #[Autowire] at the point of use — don't sprinkle %env()% reads:

public function __construct(
    #[Autowire('%env(int:ORDER_TTL_SECONDS)%')] private readonly int $orderTtl,
    #[Autowire(service: 'app.payment.http_client')] private readonly HttpClientInterface $client,
) {}

• Tag-based collection injection with #[AutowireIterator] / #[TaggedIterator] for strategy sets:

public function __construct(
    #[AutowireIterator('app.payment_gateway')] private readonly iterable $gateways,
) {}

Where does a class go?

Class	Location
Doctrine entity / aggregate	src/<Module>/Domain/ (or Domain/Model/)
Repository interface (port)	src/<Module>/Domain/
Repository Doctrine impl	src/<Module>/Infrastructure/Doctrine/
Application service / handler	src/<Module>/Application/
Controller	src/<Module>/UI/Http/ (or top-level Controller/ in small apps)
Console command	src/<Module>/UI/Cli/
DTO (request/response)	src/<Module>/UI/Http/Dto/
Value object	src/<Module>/Domain/
Custom Doctrine type	src/Shared/Infrastructure/Doctrine/Type/

Parameters and environment

• Secrets via Symfony's encrypted secrets vault (secrets:set) or .env.local — never commit real secrets.
• Type-cast env vars: %env(int:…)%, %env(bool:…)%, %env(json:…)%.
• Don't read $_ENV / getenv() in app code — inject the value.

When you DO write a bundle

Only for shareable libraries. Modern bundles use AbstractBundle:

final class AcmePaymentBundle extends AbstractBundle
{
    public function configure(DefinitionConfigurator $definition): void { /* config tree */ }

    public function loadExtension(array $config, ContainerConfigurator $container, ContainerBuilder $builder): void
    {
        $container->import('../config/services.yaml');
    }
}

Gotchas

• Agent generates a custom AppBundle for application code — modern apps use src/ under App\, no app bundle.
• Agent dumps everything into top-level Controller/, Entity/, Service/ for a large domain — organize by module first.
• Agent registers every service manually in services.yaml — rely on autowiring + autodiscovery; configure only the exceptions.
• Agent calls getenv() / reads $_ENV inside a service — inject the value via #[Autowire('%env(...)%')].
• Agent puts entities/value objects into the service container — exclude Domain plain objects from autoregistration.
• Agent commits secrets in .env — use the secrets vault or .env.local.