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Sapling Skeleton: a minimal starter app powered by Sapling Core.

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Sapling Skeleton
================

[](#sapling-skeleton)

A minimal starter app powered by [**Sapling Core**](https://github.com/Phil-Venter/sapling-core)

---

Dependencies
------------

[](#dependencies)

This skeleton app assumes **PHP** and **Composer** are installed on your system.

### MacOS

[](#macos)

```
brew install php composer
```

### Guides

[](#guides)

- PHP: `https://www.php.net/manual/en/install.php`
- Composer: `https://getcomposer.org/download/`

Getting Started
---------------

[](#getting-started)

Create a new project (replace `my-app` with your app name):

```
composer create-project sapling/skeleton:dev-main my-app
```

Enter the project directory:

```
cd my-app
```

Start the development server:

```
composer sapling:serve
```

Open:

Environment
-----------

[](#environment)

On install, `.env` is created automatically from `.env.dist` if it doesn't exist.

LICENSE
-------

[](#license)

This project is licensed under 0BSD. You can choose a different license if you wish to distribute it.

###  Health Score

19

—

LowBetter than 9% of packages

Maintenance52

Moderate activity, may be stable

Popularity4

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity12

Early-stage or recently created project

 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.

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/13363810?v=4)[Caffeinated Coder](/maintainers/phil-venter)[@Phil-Venter](https://github.com/Phil-Venter)

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Top Contributors

[![Phil-Venter](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/13363810?v=4)](https://github.com/Phil-Venter "Phil-Venter (17 commits)")

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