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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 12K 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
205 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Slim.

Slim Integrations

Pros of Slim
33
Microframework
27
API
22
Open source
21
Php
11
Fast
8
Restful & fast framework
7
Easy Setup, Great Documentation
5
Modular
5
Clear and straightforward
5
Good document to upgrade from previous version
4
Dependency injection
2
Composer
2
Easy to learn

Slim Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Slim?
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
HTML5
HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.
PHP
Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
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Slim's Followers
389 developers follow Slim to keep up with related blogs and decisions.