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lemon\_framework/lemon
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A php microframework

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🍋 Lemon
=======

[](#-lemon)

Lemon is php microframework built for learning web frameworks.

Features
--------

[](#features)

- Simple to use router
- Safe, hackable template engine Juice
- Simplified database manipulation
- Debugging tools
- Html-based Terminal layer
- Http abstraction
- Caching
- All bundled using DI container
- Whole framework was heavily inspired by:

    - [laravel/framework](https://github.com/laravel/framework)
    - [nette](https://github.com/nette) (mostly [latte](https://github.com/nette/latte))
    - [nunomaduro/termwind](https://github.com/nunomaduro/termwind)
    - [FeastFramework/framework](https://github.com/FeastFramework/framework)

Learning Lemon
--------------

[](#learning-lemon)

There is [documentation](https://lemon-framework.github.io/docs) (currently unfinished). And there are discord events of writing apps in Lemon (in Czech)

If you had any questions, you can ask them on [Lemon Discord](https://discord.gg/tsqBauhb8c).

Installing
----------

[](#installing)

`composer require lemon_framework/lemon`

Required version of php is 8.1.

Thanks
------

[](#thanks)

- CoolFido - Psychical helping, contributting, ideas, the whole idea of creating framework from scratch (he didn't expect that to happen)
- Mia - 'Lemon 2'
- Quapka - Unit testing philosofy
- Taylor Otwell - Made Laravel, which was big inspiration
- David Grudl - Made Nette, which was aslo great inspiration
- Nuno Maduro - Created Termwind which was used as inspiration in Terminal Component
- Azeem Hassni - Tutorial for creating simple router
- Marek\_P - First user who made actual app in Lemon, his code was used as inspiration for new features
- Starganzers - ❤

###  Health Score

42

—

FairBetter than 89% of packages

Maintenance30

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity29

Limited adoption so far

Community20

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity76

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 98.5% 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 ~14 days

Recently: every ~26 days

Total

64

Last Release

952d ago

Major Versions

v1.x-dev → 2.0.02021-05-24

2.6.9 → 3.0.02022-08-03

v2.x-dev → 3.0.12022-08-04

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ae79b0ba269c28e67a28a12ce856df2905e453cc8e689fc316ae5468bd71f3a9?d=identicon)[TENMAJKL](/maintainers/TENMAJKL)

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Top Contributors

[![tenmajkl](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/61601336?v=4)](https://github.com/tenmajkl "tenmajkl (659 commits)")[![ordago](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6376814?v=4)](https://github.com/ordago "ordago (5 commits)")[![harabisj](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/50618887?v=4)](https://github.com/harabisj "harabisj (4 commits)")[![mohammadhasanii](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/77454712?v=4)](https://github.com/mohammadhasanii "mohammadhasanii (1 commits)")

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Tags

lemonphp

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Code StylePHP CS Fixer

Type Coverage Yes

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