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What is Silex?

It is built on the shoulders of Symfony and Pimple and also inspired by sinatra. It has an extension system based around the Pimple micro service-container that makes it even easier to tie in third party libraries.
Silex is a tool in the Microframeworks (Backend) category of a tech stack.
Silex is an open source tool with 3.6K GitHub stars and 716 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Silex's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Silex?

Companies
9 companies reportedly use Silex in their tech stacks, including Sellsy, Clippings, and Kairos Human Analytics API.

Developers
27 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Silex.

Silex Integrations

Silex's Features

  • Concise API
  • Extensible
  • Testable
  • Fast
  • Simple
  • Easy to use

Silex Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Silex?
Laravel
It is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. It attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.
Lumen
Laravel Lumen is a stunningly fast PHP micro-framework for building web applications with expressive, elegant syntax. We believe development must be an enjoyable, creative experience to be truly fulfilling. Lumen attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as routing, database abstraction, queueing, and caching.
Slim
Slim is easy to use for both beginners and professionals. Slim favors cleanliness over terseness and common cases over edge cases. Its interface is simple, intuitive, and extensively documented — both online and in the code itself.
Symfony
It is written with speed and flexibility in mind. It allows developers to build better and easy to maintain websites with PHP..
FLEX
FLEX (Flipboard Explorer) is a set of in-app debugging and exploration tools for iOS development. When presented, FLEX shows a toolbar that lives in a window above your application. From this toolbar, you can view and modify nearly every piece of state in your running application.
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Silex's Followers
33 developers follow Silex to keep up with related blogs and decisions.