Leaf is a slim and lightweight PHP framework focused on developer experience, usability, and high-performance code.
It introduces a cleaner and much simpler structure to the PHP language while maintaining it’s flexibility. With a simple structure and a shallow learning curve, it’s an excellent way to rapidly build powerful and high performant web apps and APIs.
Leaf handles the heavy lifting so you can focus on building. It provides a simple routing system, powerful middleware support, seamless database integration, and a whole lot more.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- No config and effortless deployment, you can run Leaf anywhere PHP is available.
- Create full-fledged authentication systems for your API.
- Powerful DB layer with support for ORMs like Eloquent.
- Simplified HTTP API – provides user-friendly APIs for handling requests, CORS, sessions, cookies, and others.
- App utils.
- Dynamic view layer – supports multiple template engines and frameworks like React, Vue, and Svelte.
Website: github.com/leafsphp/leaf
Support:
Developer: Michael Darko-Duodu
License: MIT License
Leaf is written in PHP. Learn PHP with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Best PHP Micro Frameworks | |
|---|---|
| Slim | Quickly write simple yet powerful web applications and APIs |
| Symfony | Set of reusable PHP components |
| Flight | Fast, simple, extensible framework for PHP |
| Fat-Free | Powerful yet easy-to-use PHP micro-framework |
| Leaf | Slim and lightweight PHP framework |
| OpenSwoole | Programmatic platform building modernized systems |
| Framework X | Simple and fast PHP microframework |
| mezzio | Build PSR-15 middleware applications |
| Chubbyphp Framework | Focused on PSR-15 middleware applications |
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