Any suggestions for lighter frameworks than Laravel?

• leaf

  4 804 0.0 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

  7 1,495 0.0 PHP

  High-Performance PHP Framework (by spiral)

  

• SonarLint

  www.sonarlint.org

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• Ubiquity

  1 656 2.1 PHP

  Ubiquity framework

  

• Slim

  21 1,505 6.1 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

  5 7,615 0.0 PHP

  The Laravel Lumen Framework.

  

  There's a note right in project page:

• mezzio

  2 292 10.0 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

  3 73 6.0 PHP

  FEAST Framework (by FeastFramework)

  

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com

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• CakePHP

  12 8,637 9.5 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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