app VS Laravel-Zero

For the CLI tool itself, you'd be looking at: https://github.com/apexpl/app/

You're right, in the "develop Your First Package" guide I use the get method, which is only available via Guzzle and it's not PSR-18 compliant. I did that for the sake of brevity, because I figured anyone viewing that guide will be using the default install which comes with Guzzle. If you look through the App package though (https://github.com/apexpl/app/) you'll see it only ever uses the PSr-18 compliant sendRequest method. Although Apex does come with Guzzle by default, developers are more than welcome to modify the ~/boot/container.php file and change that one entry out to any PSR-18 compliant implementation they would like such as Httpful or whatever, and I promise Apex will continue humming along just fine.

Please note, I didn't just pull SVN out of my ass, and a whole lot of planning and research went into this. Take a look at the code at https://github.com/apexpl/app/ and you'll see for yourself this is solid code. Are you by chance a PHP developer? If so, feel free to give this a test spin via Docker. The design is horrendous at the moment, but the network is online and solid -- https://apexpl.io/guides/develop_your_first_package

Originally I considered using Laravel Zero but I think web views could play a role in the future such as an admin page to allow non-technical people to restart commands, etc.

Another Redditor pointed out https://laravel-zero.com which can build a standalone app, PHAR file. https://laravel-zero.com/docs/build-a-standalone-application

The app is based on Laravel Zero by u/nunomaduro, and it uses Termwind to render the release notes to console with styling and clickable links.

Hmm, since you're familiar with Laravel, you could give a try with Laravel Zero. It's based on Laravel (actually, this is stripped version of Laravel), and provides the bare bones for CLI apps.

We won't use specialised frameworks like Minicli or Laravel Zero because the goal is not so much to focus on features but to better understand the development, testing, and distribution phases of command-line programs.

I've been using Laravel Zero for quite sometimes, mostly writing simple application to do the ETL, migration purpose related - from one database type to another.

Laravel Zero: micro framework for console application;