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react/espresso
==============

Silex wired with radioactive caffeine.

v0.2.1(13y ago)11822918[1 issues](https://github.com/friends-of-reactphp/espresso/issues)[5 PRs](https://github.com/friends-of-reactphp/espresso/pulls)MITPHPPHP >=5.3.3

Since Jul 11Pushed 9y ago12 watchersCompare

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React/Espresso
==============

[](#reactespresso)

React/Espresso is a proof-of-concept microframework that integrates Silex with React/Http.

[![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/a073c285ec8cda311ee4202c20ae18e854feecfc88cc183a12f8c72214268d1b/68747470733a2f2f7365637572652e7472617669732d63692e6f72672f72656163747068702f657370726573736f2e706e673f6272616e63683d6d6173746572)](http://travis-ci.org/reactphp/espresso)

Install
-------

[](#install)

The recommended way to install react/espresso is [through composer](http://getcomposer.org).

```
{
    "require": {
        "minimum-stability": "dev",
        "react/espresso": "0.2.*"
    }
}
```

Example
-------

[](#example)

```
$app = new React\Espresso\Application();

$app->get('/', function ($request, $response) {
    $response->writeHead(200, array('Content-Type' => 'text/plain'));
    $response->end("Hello World\n");
});

$app->get('/favicon.ico', function ($request, $response) {
    $response->writeHead(204);
    $response->end();
});

$app->get('/humans.txt', function ($request, $response) {
    $response->writeHead(200, array('Content-Type' => 'text/plain'));
    $response->end("I believe you are a humanoid robot.\n");
});

$stack = new React\Espresso\Stack($app);
$stack->listen(1337);
```

Tests
-----

[](#tests)

To run the test suite, you need PHPUnit.

```
$ phpunit

```

License
-------

[](#license)

MIT, see LICENSE.

###  Health Score

32

—

LowBetter than 69% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity28

Limited adoption so far

Community23

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity51

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 73.5% 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 ~25 days

Total

4

Last Release

5027d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)v0.1.0PHP >=5.3.2

v0.2.0PHP >=5.3.3

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/147145?v=4)[Cees-Jan Kiewiet](/maintainers/WyriHaximus)[@WyriHaximus](https://github.com/WyriHaximus)

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/776829?v=4)[Christian Lück](/maintainers/clue)[@clue](https://github.com/clue)

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/5de14776bbddf901c6e24d35829fe66fe997c303d53aca83cc7d1a90bb0b7110?d=identicon)[jsor](/maintainers/jsor)

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/88061?v=4)[Igor](/maintainers/igorw)[@igorw](https://github.com/igorw)

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---

Top Contributors

[![igorw](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/88061?v=4)](https://github.com/igorw "igorw (25 commits)")[![cboden](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/617694?v=4)](https://github.com/cboden "cboden (7 commits)")[![dave1010](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/50682?v=4)](https://github.com/dave1010 "dave1010 (1 commits)")[![sobit](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1245542?v=4)](https://github.com/sobit "sobit (1 commits)")

---

Tags

microframework

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