Recommended Lightweight PHP Frameworks for REST Development?

• API Platform

  19 7,487 6.2 TypeScript

  Create REST and GraphQL APIs, scaffold Jamstack webapps, stream changes in real-time.

  

  Maybe look at https://api-platform.com/

• Slim

  18 1,444 7.2 PHP

  Slim Framework 4 Skeleton Application

  

  You can use a simple framework like slim or go with Symfony.

• Cloudways

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• swoole-src

  18 482 9.7 C++

  Programmatic server for PHP with async IO, coroutines and fibers (by openswoole)

  

  swoole brings golang style coroutines to php and a whole bunch of other features: https://openswoole.com/

• mezzio-swoole

  3 70 7.9 PHP

  Swoole support for Mezzio

  

  its been around for about a decade and lack of adoption I think is only in english speaking ecosystem. Which is a trend I propose we as english php community should start breaking. look - recently php frameworks are racing to adopt it: laravel octane uses swoole : https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/octane mezzio supports swoole: https://docs.mezzio.dev/mezzio-swoole/

• Appwrite

  342 23,092 10.0 JavaScript

  Secure Backend Server for Web, Mobile & Flutter Developers 🚀 AKA the 100% open-source Firebase alternative.

  

  large projects are done in swoole. look at this - this project is done in swoole: https://appwrite.io/

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