Any suggestions for lighter frameworks than Laravel?

1. leaf

   1 13 1,201 8.2 PHP

   🍁 The easiest way to create clean, simple but powerful web apps and APIs quickly (by leafsphp)

   

   LeafPHP is nice. Modular and easy to work with.

2. CodeRabbit

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3. Spiral Framework

   2 16 1,883 9.4 PHP

   High-Performance PHP Framework (by spiral)

   

4. Ubiquity

   3 2 693 5.2 PHP

   Ubiquity framework

   

5. Slim

   4 50 1,595 1.2 PHP

   Slim Framework 4 Skeleton Application

   

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

6. Lumen

   5 19 7,639 0.0 PHP

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   There's a note right in project page:

7. mezzio

   6 2 352 7.5 PHP

   PSR-15 Middleware Microframework

   

   As I haven't seen it mentioned yet, I can reccommend Laminas Mezzio . It's quite small, bigger than slim though (I think). It basically only handles your HTTP Lifecycle and provides a service container. Everything else you can do on your own.

8. framework

   7 12 70 3.9 PHP

   FEAST Framework (by FeastFramework)

   

9. SaaSHub

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10. CakePHP

    8 30 8,722 9.8 PHP

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    Give https://cakephp.org/ a try. It also is one of the oldest ones out there, so quite mature and stable while being rather lightweight. Serving JSON API seems like a good fit.

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