README

LiquidApi is a lightweight Composer project creator for building fast, modular, and modern PHP APIs.
It provides a clean, extensible skeleton that helps you start coding immediately without the usual boilerplate overhead.

✨ Features

• ⚡ Slim API skeleton — minimal and fast, ready for async/event-driven workloads.
• 🔌 Plug-and-play architecture — integrates easily with Symfony components, ReactPHP, or your own libraries.
• 🧩 Extensible by design — add custom bundles or drop-in modules without losing flexibility.
• 🛠️ Developer-friendly tooling — ships with sensible defaults, DTO-first design, and ready-to-use configs.

❓ Why LiquidApi?

Modern PHP developers often face a tradeoff:

• Full-stack frameworks like Symfony or Laravel are powerful but heavy and opinionated.
• Lightweight micro-frameworks are fast but often lack structure or conventions.

LiquidApi bridges the gap by offering:

• A fast, clean starting point for APIs without framework bloat.
• Flexibility to scale from a simple microservice to a distributed system.
• Control over your stack — use only the components you actually need.

Whether you’re experimenting, prototyping, or building production-ready services, LiquidApi gives you the freedom to move fast without being boxed in.

🚀 Getting Started

Create a new project using Composer:

composer composer create-project liquidrazor/liquid-api my-api

or if you are using docker (and like less clutter on your own computer)

docker run --rm --interactive --tty -u $(id -u):$(id -g) --volume $PWD:/app composer create-project liquidrazor/liquid-api my-api

📂 Project Structure

my-api/
├── config/          # Configuration files
├── public/          # Public entrypoint (index.php)
├── src/             # Your application source code
├── tests/           # Unit and integration tests
└── composer.json    # Project dependencies

🧩 Extending LiquidApi

LiquidApi is built to be extensible:

• Add Symfony components as needed.
• Swap in ReactPHP for async APIs.
• Write and share your own bundles.

🛠️ Requirements

• PHP 8.3+
• Composer 2.0+

📖 License

LiquidApi is open-sourced under the MIT license