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emmanuelng/nucleus
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A PHP framework for creating REST APIs

v0.1-alpha(6y ago)01[1 PRs](https://github.com/emmanuelng/Nucleus/pulls)MITPHPCI passing

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Nucleus
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Nucleus is a PHP library to create REST APIs. It provides the classes and interfaces to implement a router and to automatically sanitize data.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Nucleus can be installed using [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/):

```
composer require emmanuelng/nucleus

```

This will install Nucleus and all required dependencies. Nucleus requires PHP 7.2 or newer.

###  Health Score

30

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LowBetter than 64% of packages

Maintenance61

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity1

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity44

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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

2276d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![emmanuelng](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/16639004?v=4)](https://github.com/emmanuelng "emmanuelng (57 commits)")

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Tags

phpphp-frameworkrest-api

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