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sebkay/slim-starter
===================

An easy to use Slim 4 starter app. Comes with a DI container, Eloquent ORM, Twig for templating, VueJS and Sass.

1.6.0(5y ago)0121MITPHP

Since Feb 12Pushed 3y ago1 watchersCompare

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Spindle – A [Slim 4](https://www.slimframework.com/) starter project
====================================================================

[](#spindle--a-slim-4-starter-project)

[![Test PHP](https://github.com/SebKay/spindle/actions/workflows/test-php.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/SebKay/spindle/actions/workflows/test-php.yml)

What's Included
---------------

[](#whats-included)

- [Eloquent](https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/eloquent) database models
- Dependency Injection via a container
- CSRF protection (via [Slim CSRF](https://github.com/slimphp/Slim-Csrf))
- [Twig 3](https://twig.symfony.com/) for templating
- [Vue.js 3](https://v3.vuejs.org/) for reactivity and single file components
- [Sass](https://sass-lang.com/) for styling
- CSS autoprefixing (via autoprefixer)
- [Webpack 5](https://webpack.js.org/) for compiling

Why
---

[](#why)

- A single instance app makes building and testing easy.
- No hunting around fragmented include files trying to figure out what's going on.
- Using [Laravel's](https://laravel.com/) ORM, [Eloquent](https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/eloquent), makes working with the database a straightforward.
- Easily add services to the container by extending the base `App\Container\Service` class.

How
---

[](#how)

### New Project

[](#new-project)

```
composer create-project sebkay/spindle project-name
```

###  Health Score

26

—

LowBetter than 43% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity59

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 86% 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 ~7 days

Total

9

Last Release

1851d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0eb0c125a95bbb96a00c31b474c67d7761c87964bd9ba973bd3e4b896097bdb5?d=identicon)[SebKay](/maintainers/SebKay)

---

Top Contributors

[![SebKay](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1873695?v=4)](https://github.com/SebKay "SebKay (185 commits)")[![dependabot[bot]](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/in/29110?v=4)](https://github.com/dependabot[bot] "dependabot[bot] (30 commits)")

---

Tags

eloquentslim-frameworkslim-skeletonslim-templateslim4slimphptwigtwig-templatesvuevuejswebpackwebpack5

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Static AnalysisPsalm

Code StylePHP\_CodeSniffer

Type Coverage Yes

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