Slim 4 Starter Template

An opinionated starter template for a simple PHP application built on Slim Framework 4 (and Tailwind CSS & Alpine.js).

Features • Requirements • Installation

Features

📥 Autoloader (PSR-4)
📨 HTTP message interfaces with Slim-Psr7 (PSR-7)
🎯 HTTP server request handlers and HTTP server middleware (PSR-15)
🔌 HTTP factories (PSR-17)
⚙️ Environment variables support with phpdotenv
🌾 Template engine with Twig-View
🌏 i18n support with Symfony's Translation Component
📦 Dependency injection container with PHP-DI (PSR-11)
🧪 Unit testing with PHPUnit
🔍 Static code analysis with PHPStan and Psalm
🔭 Coding standards checking with PHP-CS-Fixer (PSR-12)
🛠️ CI workflows with GitHub Actions

Requirements

PHP 8.3 or newer
Composer

Installation

1. Clone this repository into your local machine:

git clone [email protected]:nbayramberdiyev/slim-4-starter.git

2. Go to the project folder:

cd slim-4-starter

3. Install the project dependencies:

composer install

4. Create a copy of .env.example:

cp .env.example .env

5. Start the PHP development server:

php -S localhost:8888 -t public

That's it! Now go build something cool.