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willgarcia/silex-api-boilerplate
================================

Silex application for getting started with your API.

0.1.0(11y ago)3393MITPHPPHP >=5.4

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README
======

[](#readme)

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silex-api-boilerplate
---------------------

[](#silex-api-boilerplate)

A starting point for building your RESTful API within a Silex application.

Prerequisites
-------------

[](#prerequisites)

- PHP >=5.4
- Grunt-cli >= 0.1.6

Components
----------

[](#components)

This project uses the following components:

- [Silex application](http://silex.sensiolabs.org/)
- [HATEOAS API](https://github.com/willdurand/Hateoas)
- \[API key authentication\]
- [Monolog as a service provider](http://silex.sensiolabs.org/doc/providers/monolog.html)
- Functional tests with [Behat 3](https://github.com/Behat/Behat)

API
---

[](#api)

The provided API stands as an example, and supports the [HAL format](http://stateless.co/hal_specification.html).

API Endpoints (see `app/routing.php`) :

```
/api                                # API entry point               ; secured route
/api/errors                         # API errors list               ; secured route
/api/errors/{code}                  # API error description         ; secured route
/api/customers                      # Customers list                ; secured route
/api/customers/{cid}                # Customer informations         ; secured route
/api/customers/{cid}/licenses       # Customer's licenses list      ; secured route
/api/customers/{cid}/licenses/{lid} # Customer license informations ; secured route

```

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
$ composer create-project willgarcia/silex-api-boilerplate my-new-api -s dev
$ npm install
$ grunt

```

Development
-----------

[](#development)

For development purposes only, you can serve the API by starting a PHP built-in web server:

```
$ cp app/env_dev.php-dist app/env_dev.php
$ API_ENV=dev php -S 0.0.0.0:4000 web/index.php

```

See

From here, you can access to this URL: `http://localhost:4000`

Tests
-----

[](#tests)

```
$ bin/behat tests/functional/features/

```

License
-------

[](#license)

Silex-api-boilerplate is released under the MIT License. See the bundled LICENSE file for details.

###  Health Score

25

—

LowBetter than 37% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity13

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity48

Maturing project, gaining track record

 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.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

4299d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9146088?v=4)[wooshell](/maintainers/wooshell)[@wooshell](https://github.com/wooshell)

---

Top Contributors

[![willgarcia](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1169460?v=4)](https://github.com/willgarcia "willgarcia (32 commits)")

---

Tags

apirestHATEOAS

###  Code Quality

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