Any suggestions for lighter frameworks than Laravel?

I have been using Laravel lately and building some cool stuff, including some livewire stuff. I'd definitely build a bigger project in it but I'm curious if there is something lighter weight that is recommended.

For the backend all I'm doing are JSON api routes. My front end is in vue, so I just need it to serve the index file and build out the backend routes. I could just do this in raw PHP but I figured there are probably some things out there that give you some of the niceties while still being really small.

Any suggestions are welcome!