LiquidApi is a lightweight Composer project creator for building fast, modular, and modern PHP APIs.
It provides a clean, extensible skeleton that helps you start coding immediately without the usual boilerplate overhead.
- ⚡ Slim API skeleton — minimal and fast, ready for async/event-driven workloads.
- 🔌 Plug-and-play architecture — integrates easily with Symfony components, ReactPHP, or your own libraries.
- 🧩 Extensible by design — add custom bundles or drop-in modules without losing flexibility.
- 🛠️ Developer-friendly tooling — ships with sensible defaults, DTO-first design, and ready-to-use configs.
Modern PHP developers often face a tradeoff:
- Full-stack frameworks like Symfony or Laravel are powerful but heavy and opinionated.
- Lightweight micro-frameworks are fast but often lack structure or conventions.
LiquidApi bridges the gap by offering:
- A fast, clean starting point for APIs without framework bloat.
- Flexibility to scale from a simple microservice to a distributed system.
- Control over your stack — use only the components you actually need.
Whether you’re experimenting, prototyping, or building production-ready services, LiquidApi gives you the freedom to move fast without being boxed in.
Create a new project using Composer:
composer composer create-project liquidrazor/liquid-api my-apior if you are using docker (and like less clutter on your own computer)
docker run --rm --interactive --tty -u $(id -u):$(id -g) --volume $PWD:/app composer create-project liquidrazor/liquid-api my-apimy-api/
├── config/ # Configuration files
├── public/ # Public entrypoint (index.php)
├── src/ # Your application source code
├── tests/ # Unit and integration tests
└── composer.json # Project dependencies
LiquidApi is built to be extensible:
- Add Symfony components as needed.
- Swap in ReactPHP for async APIs.
- Write and share your own bundles.
- PHP 8.3+
- Composer 2.0+
LiquidApi is open-sourced under the MIT license