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wave-framework/wave
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Wave is a lightweight PHP MVC framework

v5.0.11(11mo ago)2727.9k↓57.3%4[3 PRs](https://github.com/wave-framework/wave/pulls)1PHPPHP >=8.1

Since May 16Pushed 11mo ago6 watchersCompare

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wave
====

[](#wave)

Wave is a lightweight MVC framework written in PHP.

###  Health Score

54

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FairBetter than 97% of packages

Maintenance52

Moderate activity, may be stable

Popularity39

Limited adoption so far

Community21

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity88

Battle-tested with a long release history

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 66.4% 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 ~60 days

Recently: every ~183 days

Total

75

Last Release

331d ago

Major Versions

v3.8.1 → v4.0.02022-08-22

v4.0.5 → v5.0.02023-03-30

PHP version history (4 changes)v3.0.0PHP >=5.3.2

v3.8.1PHP >=5.4.2

v4.0.0PHP >=7.4

v5.0.0PHP >=8.1

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2415868?v=4)[Michael Calcinai](/maintainers/calcinai)[@calcinai](https://github.com/calcinai)

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/344000?v=4)[Patrick Hindmarsh](/maintainers/phindmarsh)[@phindmarsh](https://github.com/phindmarsh)

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1264226?v=4)[Matt Renner](/maintainers/mattrenner)[@mattrenner](https://github.com/mattrenner)

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Top Contributors

[![phindmarsh](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/344000?v=4)](https://github.com/phindmarsh "phindmarsh (298 commits)")[![mattrenner](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1264226?v=4)](https://github.com/mattrenner "mattrenner (75 commits)")[![calcinai](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2415868?v=4)](https://github.com/calcinai "calcinai (74 commits)")[![finngreig](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/81511282?v=4)](https://github.com/finngreig "finngreig (2 commits)")

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Tags

frameworkormcontrollersmvcmodelslightweightviews

###  Code Quality

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