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Libraries, frameworks, tools, and SDKs used by the apps in this directory — scored the same way as the apps themselves.

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92Health
Framework Composer

PHPUnit

The de facto standard, programmer-oriented unit testing framework for PHP.

20,055
BSD 3
Used by 34
93Health
Framework npm

NestJS

A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, scalable, and maintainable server-side applications in TypeScript.

76,663
MIT
Used by 27
98Health
Framework Composer

Laravel

The expressive, elegant PHP framework for building modern web applications

34,910
MIT
Used by 21
94Health
Tool npm

nest-cli

Scaffolds, builds, and serves NestJS applications through schematics-driven code generation and pluggable compiler backends.

2,197
MIT
Used by 19
95Health
Tool Composer

PHP CS Fixer

CLI tool that automatically fixes PHP code to follow coding standards

13,550
MIT
Used by 11
88Health
Framework Composer

Symfony Console

The PHP framework component for building beautiful, testable command-line applications

9,812
MIT
Used by 8
60Health
Framework Composer

nwidart/laravel-modules

Split large Laravel applications into self-contained, independently generated modules — each with its own routes, controllers, views, and migrations.

6,211
MIT
Used by 4
88Health
Tool Composer

PHP_CodeSniffer

Tokenizes PHP files and detects (and auto-fixes) violations of defined coding standards.

1,556
BSD 3
Used by 4
88Health
Framework Composer

Symfony HttpKernel

A structured, event-driven process for converting an HTTP Request into a Response in PHP.

8,105
MIT
Used by 3
82Health
Tool Composer

Laravel Backup

Automated database and file backups for Laravel apps, with cleanup and health monitoring

6,024
MIT
Used by 3
81Health
Tool Composer

Psalm

A PHP static analysis tool that finds type errors, dead code, and security vulnerabilities before runtime.

5,890
MIT
Used by 3
85Health
Tool Composer

Behat

A behavior-driven development (BDD) testing framework for PHP driven by Gherkin.

3,971
MIT
Used by 3
56Health
Framework Composer

FOSRestBundle

Symfony bundle that turns controllers into format-agnostic REST endpoints with content negotiation and view layer

2,795
MIT
Used by 3
88Health
Framework Composer

Symfony SecurityBundle

Symfony's full-stack authentication and authorization layer, configuring firewalls, authenticators, and access rules from YAML

2,489
MIT
Used by 3
94Health
Tool Composer

Composer

The standard dependency manager for PHP, handling libraries, versions, and autoloading.

29,524
MIT
Used by 2
60Health
Tool Composer

Laravel Pail

Dive into your Laravel application's log files directly from the command line with a sleek, filterable CLI.

926
MIT
Used by 2
93Health
Framework Composer

Yii 2

Fast, secure, professional PHP framework with ActiveRecord ORM and code generation.

14,292
BSD 3
Used by 1
97Health
Framework Composer

CakePHP

The rapid-development MVC framework for PHP, with a powerful ORM and convention-over-configuration.

8,791
MIT
Used by 1
92Health
Tool Composer

RoadRunner

A high-performance PHP application server and process manager written in Go, powered by plugins

8,505
MIT
Used by 1
86Health
Framework npm

tinyhttp

A tiny, ESM-only web framework that's an Express-compatible drop-in, with precompiled routing and a fraction of the dependencies.

2,902
MIT
Used by 1
96Health
Framework Composer

api-platform/core

PHP framework for building hypermedia REST and GraphQL APIs from your models

2,574
MIT
Used by 1
73Health
Tool Composer

Composer Patches

A Composer plugin that applies local or remote patches to any dependency during install

1,728
BSD 3
Used by 1
82Health
Framework Composer

ZF1-Future

Community-maintained fork of Zend Framework 1 for modern PHP 8

490
BSD 3
Used by 1
83Health
Tool Composer

vapor-cli

The command-line client for Laravel Vapor, the serverless deployment platform for Laravel on AWS Lambda.

317
MIT
Used by 1

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