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.
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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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