Fabien has published his plans for the new Symfony 4 directory structure. Not that it matters much to anyone in Symfony-land, where I have no status that I’m aware of, but I am happy to see the changes described.

Having said that, and recognizing that Fabien obviously has final say over his own projects …

The new etc/ directory is the equivalent of the current app/config/ directory.

…

Web files under web/

… it might be nice if Symfony 4 adopted more existing common practices, used by roughly 70% of Packagist packages. That is, to use config/ for the top-level config directory, and public/ for the top-level document-root directory.

More specifically:

  • config/ is used ~10x more than etc/ (ref)

  • public/ is used ~2x more than web/ (ref)

As a side note, that research resulted in the pds/skeleton publication.

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