routing VS Fast Route

Packages that support attributes for configuration need to roll out their own attribute collector for PHP doesn't provide a feature to query the entire code base for attributes. For example, here's one of the classes that deal with attributes for symfony/routing: https://github.com/symfony/routing/blob/6.2/Loader/AnnotationClassLoader.php. That's what this plugin offers: "a convenient and near zero-cost way to retrieve targets of PHP 8 attributes.". If you're not the maintainer of a package that deals with attributes you probably don't need that.

To demonstrate this search efficiency, I wrote some benchmark tests to compare Piko router against Fastroute and Symfony Router which are references in their domain.

- Symfony's Router

Adding https://github.com/nikic/FastRoute for comparison

Just to show an alternative: https://github.com/nikic/FastRoute

How hard did you look? There are plenty out there. FastRoute, Phroute, based on FastRoute, with basic middleware, League/Route - routing with middleware, using FastRoute, PSR 7 & 15, Slim Framework, at it's core, it like League/Route, etc. None of these require a full framework to use.

I'd recommend looking at the routers for popular, simpler frameworks (both documentation and code) such as Slim. Also look at FastRoute which is the basis for most modern routers.

Using a router library like FastRoute or Phroute to show the example

I've just recently started using https://github.com/nikic/FastRoute and it seems to work pretty well

I think a more popular one like https://github.com/nikic/FastRoute would benefit someone learning more than Aura.

The basics is the RouteCollection - https://github.com/nikic/FastRoute/blob/master/src/RouteCollector.php

Nikita Popov, author of FastRoute wrote a pretty good and complete article about how it works.