How to install Symfony with Flowbite and Tailwind CSS

Symfony is one of the definitive web application frameworks in the PHP ecosystem offering over 50 standalone PHP components and a MVC framework for your web application that you can use to build complex applications, website pages and even API services.

The Symfony PHP framework was first launched as an open-source software back in 2005 by SensioLabs SAS and it is currently used by numerous companies and frameworks including Laravel, Spotify, BlaBlaCar, Trivago, Dailymotion and more.

Follow the steps from this guide to learn how to create a new Symfony project on your local computer, install and configure the Tailwind CSS framework, and finally install Flowbite and leverage the open-source UI components to build websites even faster.

Requirements

Make sure that before you get started you have both PHP (v8.1 or higher), Composer and Node.js installed on your local environment so that Symfony, Tailwind CSS and Flowbite can be properly set up and configured.

Create a Symfony project

The most straightforward approach for creating a new Symfony project is to use the official Symfony CLI installer which you can easily install on macOS and Linux devices using Homebrew:

brew install symfony-cli/tap/symfony-cli

For devices running on Windows you can also install the Symfony CLI using Scoop:

scoop install symfony-cli

Now that you have the CLI available you can proceed by creating a new project.

Create a new Symfony project by running the following command inside your terminal:

symfony new --webapp my_application

This command will create a new folder with a fresh Symfony project installation inside.

Install the recommended Symfony Webpack Encore bundle to enable front-end integration via Composer:

composer require symfony/webpack-encore-bundle

Run the following command in your terminal to start a local web server:

symfony server:start

This command will make the web application accessible via the browser on http://localhost:8000.

To deploy your application on a server we recommend you to check out the official production deployment tools and bundlers that Symfony provides out-of-the-box, such as Deployer, Ansistrano, or Fabric.

Now that you have a working Symfony application on your local computer we can proceed with installing and setting up Tailwind CSS.

Install Tailwind CSS

Tailwind CSS is a popular and open-source utility-first CSS framework that allows you to code styles directly inside your HTML based on preconfigured classes that will speed up your UI front-end development.

Run the following command to require and install Tailwind CSS and PostCSS via NPM:

npm install --save-dev tailwindcss postcss autoprefixer postcss-loader

Generate the Tailwind CSS configuration files by running the following command:

npx tailwindcss init -p

This will create two new tailwind.config.js and postcss.config.js configuration files.

Update the template paths to indicate where Tailwind CSS utility classes will be used:

// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
  content: [
    "./assets/**/*.js",
    "./templates/**/*.html.twig",
  ],
  theme: {
    extend: {},
  },
  plugins: [],
}

Import the base Tailwind directives inside the default ./assets/styles/app.css file:

@tailwind base;
@tailwind components;
@tailwind utilities;

Enable the PostCSS loader plugin by adding it to the Webpack config file:

// webpack.config.js
Encore
    // other plugins

    .enablePostCssLoader()

    // ... more plugins

Run the following command to compile the front-end assets via Webpack:

npm run watch

Let's create a new homepage entry file by configuring the Symfony routes file:

// ./config/routes.yml

index:
    path: /
    controller: App\Controller\DefaultController::index

Create a new DefaultController and set up the path for a new Twig template file:

<?php
// ./src/Controller/DefaultController.php

namespace App\Controller;

use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\AbstractController;

class DefaultController extends AbstractController
{
    /**
     * @return \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response
     */
    public function index()
    {
        return $this->render('index.html.twig', []);
    }
}

Create a new index.html.twig inside the templates folder and add a couple of header and hero sections from the Flowbite Blocks collection:

{% extends 'base.html.twig' %}

{% block body %}
    <header>
        <nav class="bg-white border-gray-200 px-4 lg:px-6 py-2.5 dark:bg-gray-800">
            <div class="flex flex-wrap items-center justify-between max-w-screen-xl mx-auto">
                <a href="https://flowbite.com" class="flex items-center">
                    <img src="https://flowbite.com/docs/images/logo.svg" class="h-6 mr-3 sm:h-9" alt="Flowbite Logo" />
                    <span class="self-center text-xl font-semibold whitespace-nowrap dark:text-white">Flowbite</span>
                </a>
                <div class="flex items-center lg:order-2">
                    <a href="#" class="text-gray-800 dark:text-white hover:bg-gray-50 focus:ring-4 focus:ring-gray-300 font-medium rounded-lg text-sm px-4 lg:px-5 py-2 lg:py-2.5 mr-2 dark:hover:bg-gray-700 focus:outline-none dark:focus:ring-gray-800">Log in</a>
                    <a href="#" class="text-white bg-blue-700 hover:bg-blue-800 focus:ring-4 focus:ring-blue-300 font-medium rounded-lg text-sm px-4 lg:px-5 py-2 lg:py-2.5 mr-2 dark:bg-blue-600 dark:hover:bg-blue-700 focus:outline-none dark:focus:ring-blue-800">Get started</a>
                    <button data-collapse-toggle="mobile-menu-2" type="button" class="inline-flex items-center p-2 ml-1 text-sm text-gray-500 rounded-lg lg:hidden hover:bg-gray-100 focus:outline-none focus:ring-2 focus:ring-gray-200 dark:text-gray-400 dark:hover:bg-gray-700 dark:focus:ring-gray-600" aria-controls="mobile-menu-2" aria-expanded="false">
                        <span class="sr-only">Open main menu</span>
                        <svg class="w-6 h-6" fill="currentColor" viewBox="0 0 20 20" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path fill-rule="evenodd" d="M3 5a1 1 0 011-1h12a1 1 0 110 2H4a1 1 0 01-1-1zM3 10a1 1 0 011-1h12a1 1 0 110 2H4a1 1 0 01-1-1zM3 15a1 1 0 011-1h12a1 1 0 110 2H4a1 1 0 01-1-1z" clip-rule="evenodd"></path></svg>
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                    </button>
                </div>
                <div class="items-center justify-between hidden w-full lg:flex lg:w-auto lg:order-1" id="mobile-menu-2">
                    <ul class="flex flex-col mt-4 font-medium lg:flex-row lg:space-x-8 lg:mt-0">
                        <li>
                            <a href="#" class="block py-2 pl-3 pr-4 text-white bg-blue-700 rounded lg:bg-transparent lg:text-blue-700 lg:p-0 dark:text-white" aria-current="page">Home</a>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <a href="#" class="block py-2 pl-3 pr-4 text-gray-700 border-b border-gray-100 hover:bg-gray-50 lg:hover:bg-transparent lg:border-0 lg:hover:text-blue-700 lg:p-0 dark:text-gray-400 lg:dark:hover:text-white dark:hover:bg-gray-700 dark:hover:text-white lg:dark:hover:bg-transparent dark:border-gray-700">Company</a>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <a href="#" class="block py-2 pl-3 pr-4 text-gray-700 border-b border-gray-100 hover:bg-gray-50 lg:hover:bg-transparent lg:border-0 lg:hover:text-blue-700 lg:p-0 dark:text-gray-400 lg:dark:hover:text-white dark:hover:bg-gray-700 dark:hover:text-white lg:dark:hover:bg-transparent dark:border-gray-700">Marketplace</a>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <a href="#" class="block py-2 pl-3 pr-4 text-gray-700 border-b border-gray-100 hover:bg-gray-50 lg:hover:bg-transparent lg:border-0 lg:hover:text-blue-700 lg:p-0 dark:text-gray-400 lg:dark:hover:text-white dark:hover:bg-gray-700 dark:hover:text-white lg:dark:hover:bg-transparent dark:border-gray-700">Features</a>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <a href="#" class="block py-2 pl-3 pr-4 text-gray-700 border-b border-gray-100 hover:bg-gray-50 lg:hover:bg-transparent lg:border-0 lg:hover:text-blue-700 lg:p-0 dark:text-gray-400 lg:dark:hover:text-white dark:hover:bg-gray-700 dark:hover:text-white lg:dark:hover:bg-transparent dark:border-gray-700">Team</a>
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <a href="#" class="block py-2 pl-3 pr-4 text-gray-700 border-b border-gray-100 hover:bg-gray-50 lg:hover:bg-transparent lg:border-0 lg:hover:text-blue-700 lg:p-0 dark:text-gray-400 lg:dark:hover:text-white dark:hover:bg-gray-700 dark:hover:text-white lg:dark:hover:bg-transparent dark:border-gray-700">Contact</a>
                        </li>
                    </ul>
                </div>
            </div>
        </nav>
    </header>
    <section class="bg-white dark:bg-gray-900">
        <div class="max-w-screen-xl px-4 py-8 mx-auto text-center lg:py-16 lg:px-12">
            <a href="#" class="inline-flex items-center justify-between px-1 py-1 pr-4 text-sm text-gray-700 bg-gray-100 rounded-full mb-7 dark:bg-gray-800 dark:text-white hover:bg-gray-200 dark:hover:bg-gray-700" role="alert">
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                <a href="#" class="inline-flex items-center justify-center px-5 py-3 text-base font-medium text-center text-white bg-blue-700 rounded-lg hover:bg-blue-800 focus:ring-4 focus:ring-blue-300 dark:focus:ring-blue-900">
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A brand new header and hero section should now be visible on the homepage of your Symfony application's local development server supporting Tailwind CSS. Let's now proceed by installing Flowbite to enable interactive UI components.

Install Flowbite

Flowbite is a free and popular open-source UI component library built on top of the utility-classes from Tailwind CSS featuring interactive UI elements such as dropdowns, navbars, modals and also an ecosystem of website sections, templates, plugins, tools, and more that you can leverage to build websites even faster.

Install the Flowbite package via NPM in your terminal:

npm install flowbite

Require the Flowbite plugin and set up the template paths inside the configuration file:

// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
  content: [
    "./assets/**/*.js",
    "./templates/**/*.html.twig",
    "./node_modules/flowbite/**/*.js" // set up the path to the flowbite package
  ],
  theme: {
    extend: {},
  },
  plugins: [
    require('flowbite/plugin') // add the flowbite plugin
  ],
}

Inside the ./assets/app.js file you can import the Flowbite package to enable interactivity of the UI components:

/*
 * Welcome to your app's main JavaScript file!
 *
 * We recommend including the built version of this JavaScript file
 * (and its CSS file) in your base layout (base.html.twig).
 */

// any CSS you import will output into a single css file (app.css in this case)
import './styles/app.css';

// start the Stimulus application
import './bootstrap';

// enable the interactive UI components from Flowbite
import 'flowbite';

This will enable all of the interactive and dynamic UI components such as the dropdowns, modals, navbars, and other to work out-of-the-box. Webpack will automatically bundle the final JavaScript file which improves speed and performance.

Check out the Flowbite Quickstart guide to learn about the different ways you can set up the JS interactivity whether that's via CDN, using the data attributes interface, leveraging TypeScript or programmatically working with the UI components and object classes.

Flowbite components

Now that you have all of the technologies successfully set up in your Symfony project you can finally start building websites quickly and efficiently leveraging both the utility classes from Tailwind CSS, the pre-built UI components from Flowbite and the framework structure from Symfony.

Let's start by adding a simple modal authentication component from the Flowbite Library when clicking on the login button from the header:

<button type="button" data-modal-target="authentication-modal" data-modal-toggle="authentication-modal" class="text-gray-800 dark:text-white hover:bg-gray-50 focus:ring-4 focus:ring-gray-300 font-medium rounded-lg text-sm px-4 lg:px-5 py-2 lg:py-2.5 mr-2 dark:hover:bg-gray-700 focus:outline-none dark:focus:ring-gray-800">Log in</button>

<div id="authentication-modal" tabindex="-1" aria-hidden="true" class="fixed top-0 left-0 right-0 z-50 hidden w-full p-4 overflow-x-hidden overflow-y-auto md:inset-0 h-modal md:h-full">
    <div class="relative w-full h-full max-w-md md:h-auto">
        <!-- Modal content -->
        <div class="relative bg-white rounded-lg shadow dark:bg-gray-700">
            <button type="button" class="absolute top-3 right-2.5 text-gray-400 bg-transparent hover:bg-gray-200 hover:text-gray-900 rounded-lg text-sm p-1.5 ml-auto inline-flex items-center dark:hover:bg-gray-800 dark:hover:text-white" data-modal-hide="authentication-modal">
                <svg aria-hidden="true" class="w-5 h-5" fill="currentColor" viewBox="0 0 20 20" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path fill-rule="evenodd" d="M4.293 4.293a1 1 0 011.414 0L10 8.586l4.293-4.293a1 1 0 111.414 1.414L11.414 10l4.293 4.293a1 1 0 01-1.414 1.414L10 11.414l-4.293 4.293a1 1 0 01-1.414-1.414L8.586 10 4.293 5.707a1 1 0 010-1.414z" clip-rule="evenodd"></path></svg>
                <span class="sr-only">Close modal</span>
            </button>
            <div class="px-6 py-6 lg:px-8">
                <h3 class="mb-4 text-xl font-medium text-gray-900 dark:text-white">Sign in to our platform</h3>
                <form class="space-y-6" action="#">
                    <div>
                        <label for="email" class="block mb-2 text-sm font-medium text-gray-900 dark:text-white">Your email</label>
                        <input type="email" name="email" id="email" class="bg-gray-50 border border-gray-300 text-gray-900 text-sm rounded-lg focus:ring-blue-500 focus:border-blue-500 block w-full p-2.5 dark:bg-gray-600 dark:border-gray-500 dark:placeholder-gray-400 dark:text-white" placeholder="[e-mail]" required>
                    </div>
                    <div>
                        <label for="password" class="block mb-2 text-sm font-medium text-gray-900 dark:text-white">Your password</label>
                        <input type="password" name="password" id="password" placeholder="••••••••" class="bg-gray-50 border border-gray-300 text-gray-900 text-sm rounded-lg focus:ring-blue-500 focus:border-blue-500 block w-full p-2.5 dark:bg-gray-600 dark:border-gray-500 dark:placeholder-gray-400 dark:text-white" required>
                    </div>
                    <div class="flex justify-between">
                        <div class="flex items-start">
                            <div class="flex items-center h-5">
                                <input id="remember" type="checkbox" value="" class="w-4 h-4 border border-gray-300 rounded bg-gray-50 focus:ring-3 focus:ring-blue-300 dark:bg-gray-600 dark:border-gray-500 dark:focus:ring-blue-600 dark:ring-offset-gray-800 dark:focus:ring-offset-gray-800" required>
                            </div>
                            <label for="remember" class="ml-2 text-sm font-medium text-gray-900 dark:text-gray-300">Remember me</label>
                        </div>
                        <a href="#" class="text-sm text-blue-700 hover:underline dark:text-blue-500">Lost Password?</a>
                    </div>
                    <button type="submit" class="w-full text-white bg-blue-700 hover:bg-blue-800 focus:ring-4 focus:outline-none focus:ring-blue-300 font-medium rounded-lg text-sm px-5 py-2.5 text-center dark:bg-blue-600 dark:hover:bg-blue-700 dark:focus:ring-blue-800">Login to your account</button>
                    <div class="text-sm font-medium text-gray-500 dark:text-gray-300">
                        Not registered? <a href="#" class="text-blue-700 hover:underline dark:text-blue-500">Create account</a>
                    </div>
                </form>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

After setting up the data-modal-target="{modalId}" and data-modal-toggle="{modalId}" data attributes for the button component and copy-pasting the modal example, clicking on the login button will now show a modal element with a user sign in form that you can use to authenticate users directly from your homepage.

You can check out the full collection of UI components by visiting Flowbite Blocks and Flowbite Library.

Symfony starter project

The awesome open-source community from Flowbite created a Symfony and Tailwind CSS starter project that you can use to skip this integration guide and use it as starting point for your future Symfony, Tailwind CSS and Flowbite projects.