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league/json-guard
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A validator for JSON using json-schema.

1.0.1(9y ago)1831.9M—3%[1 PRs](https://github.com/thephpleague/json-guard/pulls)20MITPHP >=5.6.0

Since Apr 15Compare

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READMEChangelogDependencies (6)Versions (16)Used By (20)

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###  Health Score

42

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FairBetter than 90% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity51

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community15

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity66

Established project with proven stability

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 ~27 days

Recently: every ~12 days

Total

15

Last Release

3302d ago

Major Versions

0.5.2 → 1.0.0-alpha2017-04-24

PHP version history (2 changes)v0.1.0PHP >=5.5.0

1.0.0-alphaPHP >=5.6.0

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/534693?v=4)[Frank de Jonge](/maintainers/frankdejonge)[@frankdejonge](https://github.com/frankdejonge)

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a2687baf734ad8beb4dcc84d936ab41a500412e0aad55ab5a15a2205cacee15f?d=identicon)[matt-allan](/maintainers/matt-allan)

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Tags

jsonschemavalidationjson-schemajson-schema.org

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Code StylePHP\_CodeSniffer

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