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 category of a tech stack.
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What are some alternatives to Silex?
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 is intended for getting started very quickly and was developed with best intentions in mind.
It is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints.
Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort.
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.
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