Architecture

origami relies on Symfony, a popular PHP framework.

Unlike common Symfony projects, we use Box to package the tool into a single binary file so that it's possible to share it without installing all its dependencies. Otherwise, it could potentially bring conflicts if other tools with outdated dependencies are present on the local machine.

Why PHP? The main reason is that origami will focus on environments dedicated to PHP applications, and we would like to facilitate the contribution process by using something well-known by our end-users.