Blink - A high performance web framework and application server in PHP

Blink is a micro web framework for building long-running and high performance services, the design heavily inspired by Yii2
and Laravel. Blink aims to provide the most expressive and elegant API and try to make the experience of web development
as pleasant as possible.

Besides, Blink is also an application server that can serve requests directly in PHP, without php-fpm or Apache's mod_php.
we use the Swoole extension as the underlying networking library. This can easily make
our PHP application 100% faster in just a blink.

Why build this?

In php-fpm or mod_php, all resources like objects and database connections only live within a single request,
all these resources will be freed once the request terminates. This works fine with simple applications without
much traffic, but for large scale applications, the performance impact of reallocating resources on every request
is really huge.

Because of this, we are always trying to find a way to reduce unnecessary resources reallocating on every request, and
I'm finally very glad to announce that Blink is exactly the answer!

Features

Powered by Swoole, serve requests in PHP directly
Dependency Injection & Service Locator
Routing for Restful APIs
Authentication & Authorization abstraction
Session Management abstraction
Middleware support for Request and Response
Plugins support
PHPUnit integration for unit tests

Installation

Install the latest version with

bash
composer create-project --prefer-dist blink/seed your-app

Documentation

Blink is fully documented in both English and Chinese:

For the documentation of v0.3, please visit https://docs.rethinkphp.com/blink-framework/v0.3/

blink-redis A Redis component for the Blink Framework
blink-sentry The Sentry integration for Blink Framework.
notejam_blink A notejam demo application for Blink.

Participating

Blink is still in active development, so your participation is very welcome!

You may participate in the following ways:

Report issues or Start a design discussion
Develop features or write documentation via Pull Requests

Author

Follow me on Weibo (Mainland China) to receive news and updates about the framework.

License

The Blink framework is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license