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jasonmichels/lift-framework
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Lift is a PHP 7 micro framework for building microservices

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### Lift - PHP 7 micro framework

[](#lift---php-7-micro-framework)

### Introduction

[](#introduction)

Lift is an opinionated PHP 7 micro framework

### Example

[](#example)

```
declare(strict_types=1);
require('../vendor/autoload.php');

use Lift\Framework\App;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\JsonResponse;
use Lift\Framework\Http\Response;

function getHomepage(Request $request): JsonResponse {
    $response = Response\json();
    $response->setData(['data' => ['stuff' => 'is awesome']]);
    return $response;
}

function getUserHandler (Request $request, array $args): JsonResponse {
    $response = Response\json();
    $response->setData(['data' => ['userId' => $args['id'], 'username' => 'Jason Michels']]);
    return $response;
}

$app = new App();

$routes = [
    ['httpMethod' => Request::METHOD_GET, 'route' => '/', 'handler' => 'getHomepage'],
    ['httpMethod' => Request::METHOD_GET, 'route' => '/user/{id:\d+}', 'handler' => 'getUserHandler']
];

$app->run($routes);
```

### Testing

[](#testing)

```
$ phpunit
```

- Be Awesome!

### Language

[](#language)

- PHP 7

### License

[](#license)

GroundworkPHP is open-sourced software licensed under the [MIT license](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

Authors
-------

[](#authors)

- Jason Michels

###  Health Score

23

—

LowBetter than 26% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity49

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

3675d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/605117?v=4)[Jason](/maintainers/jasonmichels)[@jasonmichels](https://github.com/jasonmichels)

---

Top Contributors

[![jasonmichels](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/605117?v=4)](https://github.com/jasonmichels "jasonmichels (2 commits)")

---

Tags

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