What is 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.
Slim is a tool in the Microframeworks (Backend) category of a tech stack.
Slim is an open source tool with 11.7K GitHub stars and 1.9K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Slim's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Slim?
Companies
57 companies reportedly use Slim in their tech stacks, including E-Commerce, HHEY, and Evergreenteam stack.
Developers
200 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Slim.
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Slim Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Slim?
ExpressJS
Express is a minimal and flexible node.js web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications.
Flask
Flask is intended for getting started very quickly and was developed with best intentions in mind.
Django REST framework
It is a powerful and flexible toolkit that makes it easy to build Web APIs.
Koa
Koa aims to be a smaller, more expressive, and more robust foundation for web applications and APIs. Through leveraging generators Koa allows you to ditch callbacks and greatly increase error-handling. Koa does not bundle any middleware.
Sinatra
Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort.
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