News App API Skeleton (Symfony REST Edition)

Overview

A bare scaffold for a news application’s backend, started from the Symfony REST Edition. The archived folder is near-empty, essentially the starting skeleton plus an upgrade note, so it documents an intent more than a finished build.

Why It Exists

Created as the API tier for a news/content app (likely paired with a hybrid mobile front end from the same period), to serve articles over a REST interface.

What We Built

Only the early scaffolding survives: a symfony-rest-edition project directory and a Symfony UPGRADE-2.2.md note. No custom bundles or domain code are present in the archive, indicating the project was abandoned at or near the skeleton stage.

Technologies & Approach

Built on Symfony’s REST Edition (Symfony 2.x with FOSRestBundle), a common 2015 choice for standing up a JSON API quickly. Composer managed dependencies.

Outcome / Impact

An abandoned early-stage build. Retained for historical completeness; it reflects the developer’s habit of starting API tiers from the Symfony REST Edition rather than building routing/serialization from scratch.

Capabilities Demonstrated

• Scaffolding a REST API backend on Symfony
• Awareness of REST-oriented Symfony tooling (FOSRestBundle)