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Why? What about Laravel is so heavy that it's stopping you from taking your development to the next level?
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Jan 25, 2024
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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!
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@hartleyst Laravel Lumen is a lightweight and fast framework You can check the website https://lumen.laravel.com/docs/10.x
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Slim Framework might be a fit for your requirements.
I don't know if Lumen will be receiving ongoing support based on their own docs
...we no longer recommend that you begin new projects with Lumen
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