Any suggestions for lighter frameworks than Laravel?

• leaf

  11 1,018 5.8 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.

• Spiral Framework

  15 1,694 9.5 PHP

  High-Performance PHP Framework (by spiral)

  

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• Ubiquity

  2 681 5.5 PHP

  Ubiquity framework

  

• Slim

  46 1,561 6.2 PHP

  Slim Framework 4 Skeleton Application

  

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

• Lumen

  18 7,639 0.0 PHP

  Discontinued The Laravel Lumen Framework.

  

There's a note right in project page:

• mezzio

  2 322 7.4 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.

• framework

  12 70 3.9 PHP

  FEAST Framework (by FeastFramework)

  

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• CakePHP

  28 8,671 9.8 PHP

  CakePHP: The Rapid Development Framework for PHP - Official Repository

  

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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