Production-Ready
API Architecture
Optimised
Performance
Auto-Generated
API Documentation
Every API Platform endpoint automatically generates complete OpenAPI documentation with request/response examples and interactive SwaggerUI testing interfaces. Documentation stays synchronised with code changes, eliminating documentation drift. Developers get immediate testing capabilities that reduce integration friction and accelerate development.
Hypermedia APIs Done Right
Hypermedia-driven REST APIs with JSON-LD and Hydra controls
GraphQL endpoints with queries, mutations, and subscriptions
Auto-generated OpenAPI/Swagger documentation from code
Built-in validation, serialisation, and pagination
JWT/OAuth2 authentication with fine-grained access control
Admin UI and React/Vue client code generation
JSON-LD provides semantic context that makes API responses machine-readable, whilst Hydra hypermedia controls enable self-discovering APIs. Clients navigate resources through links rather than hardcoded URLs, reducing coupling and enabling API evolution without versioning. This W3C standard approach eliminates the technical debt associated with managing multiple API versions, as the API structure becomes discoverable at runtime rather than fixed at compile time.
Hypermedia-driven REST APIs with JSON-LD and Hydra controls
GraphQL endpoints with queries, mutations, and subscriptions
Auto-generated OpenAPI/Swagger documentation from code
Built-in validation, serialisation, and pagination
JWT/OAuth2 authentication with fine-grained access control
Admin UI and React/Vue client code generation
Our API Platform Process
We use API Platform's conventions while customising for your business logic and integration requirements.
Domain Modelling
Start with PHP entities annotated with API Platform attributes. Define resources, operations, filters, and validation rules declaratively using attributes or YAML.
REST & GraphQL APIs
Implement hypermedia-driven REST with JSON-LD and Hydra for self-discoverable APIs. Expose the same domain models via GraphQL with queries, mutations, subscriptions, and custom resolvers for complex operations.
Security & Performance
JWT/OAuth2 authentication, voter-based authorisation, Doctrine query optimisation, HTTP caching with Varnish, and rate limiting to handle production traffic.
Domain Modelling
Start with PHP entities annotated with API Platform attributes. Define resources, operations, filters, and validation rules declaratively using attributes or YAML.
REST & GraphQL APIs
Implement hypermedia-driven REST with JSON-LD and Hydra for self-discoverable APIs. Expose the same domain models via GraphQL with queries, mutations, subscriptions, and custom resolvers for complex operations.
Security & Performance
JWT/OAuth2 authentication, voter-based authorisation, Doctrine query optimisation, HTTP caching with Varnish, and rate limiting to handle production traffic.
Why API Platform with Symfony
Rapid development meets enterprise-grade architecture and standards compliance.
Rapid Prototyping
Rapid Development
From domain entities to fully-functional REST and GraphQL APIs in hours. Auto-generated docs, admin panels, and client code eliminate boilerplate.
Standards-Based
Standards-Based
Built on W3C and IETF standards (JSON-LD, Hydra, OpenAPI, OAuth2). Future-proof architecture that integrates smoothly with modern tooling.
Developer Experience
Self-documenting APIs
Self-documenting APIs with interactive Swagger UI. Clear error messages, consistent response formats, and type-safe client generation for TypeScript/React.
Enterprise Ready
High Availability
Handles complex business logic with custom operations, state machines, event-driven workflows, and microservice integration via message queues.
Rapid Prototyping
Rapid Development
From domain entities to fully-functional REST and GraphQL APIs in hours. Auto-generated docs, admin panels, and client code eliminate boilerplate.
Standards-Based
Standards-Based
Built on W3C and IETF standards (JSON-LD, Hydra, OpenAPI, OAuth2). Future-proof architecture that integrates smoothly with modern tooling.
Developer Experience
Self-documenting APIs
Self-documenting APIs with interactive Swagger UI. Clear error messages, consistent response formats, and type-safe client generation for TypeScript/React.
Enterprise Ready
High Availability
Handles complex business logic with custom operations, state machines, event-driven workflows, and microservice integration via message queues.
Built on Web Standards
API Platform embraces established standards for interoperability and future-proofing
JSON-LD & Hydra
JSON for Linked Data provides semantic context whilst Hydra hypermedia controls enable self-discovering APIs. Clients navigate resources through links rather than hardcoded URLs.
OpenAPI 3 Specification
Industry-standard API documentation auto-generated from your code. Interactive Swagger UI for testing and client SDK generation for TypeScript, PHP, and more.
GraphQL Integration
Modern query language for flexible data fetching. Clients request exactly what they need, reducing over-fetching and round trips with type-safe schemas.
OAuth2 & JWT Security
Industry-standard authentication and authorisation. Fine-grained access control with Symfony voters and role-based permissions for enterprise security.
JSON-LD & Hydra
JSON for Linked Data provides semantic context whilst Hydra hypermedia controls enable self-discovering APIs. Clients navigate resources through links rather than hardcoded URLs.
OpenAPI 3 Specification
Industry-standard API documentation auto-generated from your code. Interactive Swagger UI for testing and client SDK generation for TypeScript, PHP, and more.
GraphQL Integration
Modern query language for flexible data fetching. Clients request exactly what they need, reducing over-fetching and round trips with type-safe schemas.
OAuth2 & JWT Security
Industry-standard authentication and authorisation. Fine-grained access control with Symfony voters and role-based permissions for enterprise security.
API Platform transformed how we build APIs. From idea to production in days, not weeks. The auto-generated docs and client SDKs eliminated integration friction entirely.
Symfony Services
Related Symfony capabilities that work smoothly with API Platform
Cross-Technology Integration
Complementary technologies and platforms that integrate with API Platform
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