Using the Symfony Messenger component

When developing a large scale application the software often needs to do a lot of different tasks. These tasks can consume a lot of time. Because you want your application to be fast and offer a great user experience you don’t want to process these tasks immediately. This is where the Symfony Messenger component comes into play.

What is the Symfony Messenger component?

The Messenger component is an easy to use component for sending and receiving messages to and from a message bus. The bus consists of different middleware classes. This middleware can perform different actions on the messages and manipulate the metadata of the messages. There are a few concepts we need to cover before diving in too deep.

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