Symfony2 + NodeJS + AngularJS？

Question

I want to start the development of an real time and single-page application with authentification, actions, and notifications.

Is it possible to make the back-end treatment with Symfony whom I know well, and to add NodeJS / AngularJS by above?

This plan will help you has to understand me. Is it possible to apply it, and is it a good practice?

Answer 1

First, I believe we need to clarify some misunderstandings regarding the real time and AngularJS. AngularJS $http and $resource use Ajax in the background.

To have real time communication where the server pushes information to the client (instead of responding to Ajax calls), you would have to use Websockets. There are several alternatives in this domain, for example, socket.io integrates very well with nodejs, Ratchet socketo.me is specific for PHP, or you can use a 3rd party like Pusher through github.com/pusher/pusher-angular.

Second, you can certainly invoke PHP scripts from nodejs, however, unless you have a very specific reason to do so, it seems to me that it defeats the purpose of using nodejs. If you do not have such a requirement on use nodejs.

Answer 2

当然可以。你可以在你的服务器上安装nodejs和symfony2。你可以使用CLI方法在Symfony2中使用nodejs。在前端你可以使用angular和nodejs（转换）。有nodejs包，它可以让你转换你的nodejs代码到浏览器（browserify）端代码，你可以使用angularjs.NodeJs有一个名为socket.io的包。你可以使用它在服务器和客户端之间建立biDirectinal连接。