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fortean/laravel-festivus
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Festivus: A Guzzle-based REST client for Laravel with packaged service descriptions.

5.0.0(11y ago)921[1 issues](https://github.com/fortean/laravel-festivus/issues)MITPHPPHP >=5.4

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Festivus for the REST of us... A Guzzle-based REST client for Laravel 5 with packaged service descriptions.
===========================================================================================================

[](#festivus-for-the-rest-of-us-a-guzzle-based-rest-client-for-laravel-5-with-packaged-service-descriptions)

Festivus provides a Laravel 5 Facade wrapping Guzzle with helpers that make it drop-dead simple to use. Eloquent models can be hydrated from service calls and APIs are defined by service descriptions. What more could you ask for? An aluminum pole?

### Contents

[](#contents)

- [Installation](#installation)
- [Thanks](#thanks)
- [License](#license)

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

[](#installation)

Add laravel-festivus to your composer.json file:

```
"require": {
  "laravel-festivus": "5.0.*"
}

```

Use composer to install this package.

```
$ composer update

```

### Registering the Package

[](#registering-the-package)

Register the service provider within the `providers` array found in `app/config/app.php`:

```
'providers' => array(
	// ...

	'Fortean\Festivus\FestivusServiceProvider'
)
```

Add an alias within the `aliases` array found in `app/config/app.php`:

```
'aliases' => array(
	// ...

	'Festivus' => 'Fortean\Festivus\Facade\Festivus',
)
```

Thanks
------

[](#thanks)

Thanks to the Guzzle crew for making such an awesome client! Without you guys, I'd still be hand-coding silly REST calls!

License
-------

[](#license)

This library is licensed under the [MIT license](LICENSE).

###  Health Score

27

—

LowBetter than 49% of packages

Maintenance18

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity12

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity60

Established project with proven stability

 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

2

Last Release

4063d ago

Major Versions

4.0.0 → 5.0.02015-04-04

### Community

Maintainers

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---

Top Contributors

[![bmwalter68](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4651048?v=4)](https://github.com/bmwalter68 "bmwalter68 (15 commits)")

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Tags

laravelrestGuzzlefestivus

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