Recommended Lightweight PHP Frameworks for REST Development?

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  • API Platform

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

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

  • Slim

    Slim Framework 4 Skeleton Application

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

  • WorkOS

    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.

  • ext-openswoole

    Programmatic server for PHP with async IO, coroutines and fibers

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

  • mezzio-swoole

    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

    Build like a team of hundreds_

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

  • InfluxDB

    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.

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