Laravel VS Slim

This is how Laravel and Slim does this.

It supports REST and GraphQL APIs out of the box, or you might use it to build a Full Stack application using the model view controller pattern, aka MVC), similar to frameworks like Laravel or ruby on rails, and it contains a ton of built-in modules to work with databases, handle security, implement streaming and anything else you can imagine doing in a server side application.

I will be using it with PHP and Laravel project.

I have used Laravel web framework for creating the app. I have also used Filament admin panel generator to quickly generate CRUD app functionality.

Also, există Laravel și CMS-uri cum e Statamic care sunt next level față de PHP-ul „clasic”.

Laravel: On the list, Laravel is placed second with 59,000 stars and 6,247 commits.

Maybe use this if you don't like to dive into bigger frameworks: https://www.slimframework.com/

My APIs are in Slim. It's super light and you have all you need: routes and middlewares.

You can download it and review the documentation here: https://www.slimframework.com/

Fwiw, this code example uses the Slim PHP Framework, which also uses a similarly vulnerable example on their homepage https://www.slimframework.com/

One framework I haven't seen mentioned here is Slim. It's a great micro framework if you only need to build a simple API. It supports the most important PSR's and it's great as glue to hook up other libraries.

Start with a simple API! Just a GET endpoint that returns the time or something like that. Once that is working, you can extend its functionalities to whatever you want. Again, you'll find API libraries for all common languages. I used this for PHP.

There are many micro-frameworks available like Slim, Mezzio(with Swoole may be), or if you are into async then you can also try Framework X(from core maintainer of ReactPHP). This frameworks have small footprints compare to Laravel, Symfony, etc. Yes, you can't get things like authentication, routing and other out of the box but they can easily be installed and configured to be used.

I've done similar except I used a micro framework, specifically Slim, then used whatever external dependencies I needed. Much less opinionated so it was easier slowly moving things over.