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ericfortmeyer/arctic-butterfly
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A lightweight dependency injection system

v1.0.0-alpha6(4y ago)01MITPHPPHP >=8.0.0

Since Aug 2Pushed 3y ago1 watchersCompare

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Arctic Butterfly
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[](#arctic-butterfly)

Dependency injection that attempts to inject your dependencies without Reflection.

###  Health Score

20

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LowBetter than 14% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity1

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity46

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 ~0 days

Total

6

Last Release

1743d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/40972462?v=4)[Eric Fortmeyer](/maintainers/ericfortmeyer)[@ericfortmeyer](https://github.com/ericfortmeyer)

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Top Contributors

[![ericfortmeyer](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/40972462?v=4)](https://github.com/ericfortmeyer "ericfortmeyer (9 commits)")

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Tags

containerdependencyinjectiondiiocwiring

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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