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Mastering Symfony

You're reading from   Mastering Symfony Orchestrate the designing, development, testing, and deployment of web applications with Symfony

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2016
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ISBN-13 9781784390310
Length 290 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Installing and Configuring Symfony FREE CHAPTER 2. The Request and Response Life Cycle 3. Setting Up the Environment 4. Using Behavior-Driven Development in Symfony 5. Business Logic 6. Dashboard and Security 7. The Presentation Layer 8. Project Review 9. Services and Service Containers 10. Custom User Commands 11. More about Dev, Test and Prod Environments 12. Caching in Symfony Index

ESI for selective caching

Here is the definition of ESI according to Wikipedia:

 

"Edge Side Includes or ESI is a small markup language for edge level dynamic web content assembly. The purpose of ESI is to tackle the problem of web infrastructure scaling. Dynamic content creates a problem for caching systems. To overcome this problem a group of companies developed the ESI specification and submitted it to the W3C for approval."

 
 --Wikipedia

In simple words, we can use ESI to define independent caching rules for any section of each page. Again, Symfony comes with out-of-the-box support for the ESI feature. We don't need to install anything to use ESI in our project. All we need to do is uncomment the following line in config.yml:

# app/config/config.yml
# ...
framework:
    esi:             

Then, we need to wrap the part of the template that we want to have a different caching strategy for in an ESI renderer. Thanks to Twig, we can easily do this as follows:

# src...
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