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photon/photon
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Photon is a high performance micro PHP framework.

v2.4.0(6y ago)203.4k12LGPL-2.1PHP ~5.3 | ~7.0

Since Jan 8Compare

[ Source](https://github.com/photon/photon)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/photon/photon)[ Docs](http://www.photon-project.com/)[ RSS](/packages/photon-photon/feed)WikiDiscussions Synced 1mo ago

READMEChangelogDependencies (3)Versions (58)Used By (12)

### README not available

The README for this package hasn't been synced yet. View it on [GitHub](https://github.com/photon/photon).

###  Health Score

37

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LowBetter than 83% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity25

Limited adoption so far

Community19

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity72

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 89.8% 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 ~31 days

Recently: every ~21 days

Total

56

Last Release

2434d ago

Major Versions

0.5.14 → 1.0.02015-12-05

1.1.3 → v2.0.02017-04-06

PHP version history (3 changes)0.3.0PHP >=5.3.0

1.0.2PHP ~5.3

v2.0.0PHP ~5.3 | ~7.0

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/32f98ddde8bc7b4f6fadce6a4030a77dc6dfd8e08d8e5b122ab4cc70232f6341?d=identicon)[delkia](/maintainers/delkia)

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Top Contributors

[![wysman](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1042272?v=4)](https://github.com/wysman "wysman (307 commits)")[![piouPiouM](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/22614?v=4)](https://github.com/piouPiouM "piouPiouM (18 commits)")[![deweller](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/51414?v=4)](https://github.com/deweller "deweller (11 commits)")[![daloic](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/31305575?v=4)](https://github.com/daloic "daloic (6 commits)")

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Tags

photonmongrel2zmq

###  Code Quality

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Code StylePHP\_CodeSniffer

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