Building REST APIs with API Platform, Symfony, and MongoDB

Today's web applications rely on large datasets and require real-time database interaction. Developers often face the challenge of efficiently managing and scaling CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations while maintaining flexibility, performance, and security. However, building a standard API often comes with significant challenges: documenting endpoints, mapping them to the database, handling data transformation, and ensuring validation—all while maintaining performance, scalability, and security. Building an application with API Platform provides a robust, flexible, and user-friendly solution for creating modern APIs. When seamlessly integrated with MongoDB, it empowers developers to efficiently handle CRUD operations while maintaining scalability and ease of use. In this tutorial, we will use API Platform with Symfony to build REST APIs that perform CRUD operations on the MongoDB database. To connect the application with MongoDB, we will use MongoDB Atlas. Prerequisites A fr