Tool
AssetMapper
Native import maps in Symfony: CSS and JS as modules, without a Node toolchain for a classic site.
AssetMapper’s particularity is honesty: the browser loads ESM, versioned files, no opaque webpack graph for a content site. importmap.php is the manifest. That fits Symfony 6.3+ fronts that are not SPAs.
Strength: less Node on the PHP project, diffs you can read, CDN-free vendor files in the repo. Limit: it is not the tool for a heavy React app — Encore or Vite still exist for that. Ibexa’s Admin UI stays on Encore; the public theme does not have to.
A senior chooses the asset pipeline per surface, not “one bundler to rule them all”.
