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ilya/little
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Laughably simple IoC container

1.0.1(11y ago)024MITPHP

Since Mar 29Pushed 11y ago1 watchersCompare

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**Little** is a very small IoC container written in PHP just for fun. This project is heavily inspired by the Laravel IoC container.

**Little** supports automatic dependency resolution, singletons and binding existing instances into the container.

**Little** consists of ~200 lines of code (including comments) and 5 methods available to you:

- `void bind(string $abstract, string|Closure $concrete)`
- `mixed make(string $abstract)`
- `void singleton(string $abstract, string|Closure $concrete)`
- `void instance(string $abstract, mixed $instance)`
- `Closure share(Closure $closure)`
- `boolean bound(string $abstract)`

Believe it or not, that's it!

Installation
============

[](#installation)

```
composer require "ilya/little:~1"

```

Examples
========

[](#examples)

Check out the `examples` folder. To run the demo, type:

```
php examples/demo.php

```

License
=======

[](#license)

The MIT license, check out the `LICENSE` file.

P.S. follow [the author](https://twitter.com/ilya_s_dev) on Twitter

###  Health Score

27

—

LowBetter than 49% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity65

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 ~29 days

Total

3

Last Release

4371d ago

Major Versions

0.9 → 1.02014-03-31

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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