Slim 4 Starter Template

An opinionated starter template for a simple PHP application built on Slim Framework 4 (and Tailwind CSS & Alpine.js).

Features • Requirements • Installation

Features

• 📥 Autoloader (PSR-4)

• 📨 HTTP message interfaces with Slim-Psr7 (PSR-7)

• 🎯 HTTP server request handlers and HTTP server middleware (PSR-15)

• 🔌 HTTP factories (PSR-17)

• ⚙️ Environment variables support with phpdotenv

• 🌾 Template engine with Twig-View

• 🌏 i18n support with Symfony's Translation Component

• 📦 Dependency injection container with PHP-DI (PSR-11)

• 🧪 Unit testing with PHPUnit

• 🔍 Static code analysis with PHPStan and Psalm

• 🔭 Coding standards checking with PHP-CS-Fixer (PSR-12)

• 🛠️ CI workflows with GitHub Actions

Requirements

• PHP 8.2 or newer
• Composer

Installation

1. Clone this repository into your local machine:

git clone git@github.com:nbayramberdiyev/slim-4-starter.git

2. Go to the project folder:

cd slim-4-starter

3. Install the project dependencies:

composer install

4. Create a copy of .env.example:

cp .env.example .env

5. Start the PHP development server:

php -S localhost:8888 -t public

That's it! Now go build something cool.