# Symfony Webpack Encore

JavaScript wrapper around webpack that bundles modules and compiles and minifies CSS and JavaScript assets, used in Symfony and other applications.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/webpack-encore/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-28
Listed since: 2026-10-28

## Record

### Links

- home: https://symfony.com/doc/current/frontend.html
- repository: https://github.com/symfony/webpack-encore
- docs: https://symfony.com/doc/current/frontend/encore/index.html

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Symfony
- maintainerType: unknown
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2017
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: build-tool
- hosting: not applicable
- language: javascript
- runtime: node
- runtimeMin: node 22
- basedOn: webpack

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: local
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: npm

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 7
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-07-26

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 2220
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: 252361
- contributors: 84
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 12333
- dependentPackages: 72

### Sources

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- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/symfony/webpack-encore (read 2026-10-28)
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- installMethod: https://symfony.com/doc/current/frontend/encore/installation.html (read 2026-10-28)
- installMethod: https://symfony.com/doc/current/frontend/encore/installation.html (read 2026-10-28)
- runsAs: https://symfony.com/doc/current/frontend/encore/simple-example.html (read 2026-10-28)
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- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/symfony/webpack-encore/releases?per_page=30 (read 2026-10-28)
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- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/%40symfony%2Fwebpack-encore (read 2026-10-28)

## Notes

Symfony Webpack Encore is a wrapper around webpack, with a smaller API for bundling JavaScript modules and for pre-processing and compiling CSS and JavaScript assets. A Symfony application installs it with a Composer bundle, which adds the Node dependencies, an assets directory and a webpack.config.js file; any other project installs the npm package and writes the same configuration by hand. The configuration calls the Encore API, and the example build writes its output to public/build, where the web server serves it. Symfony maintains Encore.

## Worth knowing

Encore is in low-maintenance mode: the project takes bug fixes, security patches and peer dependency updates only. The README recommends Symfony Reprise for projects that need a bundler and names the Symfony AssetMapper component as a simpler alternative that runs entirely in PHP.

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