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alchemist/alchemist
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Serialization library

v0.2.0(6y ago)02.5kMITPHPPHP ^7.1

Since Mar 25Pushed 6y ago1 watchersCompare

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Alchemist
=========

[](#alchemist)

Library for transforming (serialization, deserialization) of your data and objects.

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###  Health Score

26

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LowBetter than 43% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity17

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity50

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~277 days

Total

3

Last Release

2417d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7b0ad34ad22fcfe0a463f97d03652075b2a8b698552513b5e1efddb4b8afd2bb?d=identicon)[mleko](/maintainers/mleko)

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Top Contributors

[![mleko](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2631527?v=4)](https://github.com/mleko "mleko (18 commits)")

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Tags

jsonnormalizerlibraryserializerserializationencoder

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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