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Curated list of resources: books, videos, articles about using Lumen ( PHP Microframework by Laravel )

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Essentials

  • Lumen Homepage
  • Documentation - Lumen 5
  • GitHub Repository

Demos

  • Lumen API demo

Tutorials

Written

  • Building a Micro Markdown API app with Lumen
  • Lumen by Laravel - First tutorial
  • Developing a web application with lumen and Mysql
  • Getting Started with Lumen
  • Building a web app with Lumen Web Api and Oauth2 Authentication
  • Build an API with Lumen and Fractal
  • Developing a microservice with Lumen
  • Json Web token authentication for Lumen
  • Creating Your First Artisan Command in Lumen 5.5

Videos

  • Introducing Lumen by Taylor Otwell
  • Zero to API with Lumen
  • Building a Bookings API with Lumen
  • Lumen 5.1 and Homestead of Laravel: Create a RESTful API
  • Building APIs with Lumen by Oz Brignoni
  • Lumen Restful API and Homestead

Packages and Middleware

  • Lumen Cors - A simple lumen CORS
  • Alternative Lumen Cors - CORS Middleware for Lumen micro-framework
  • Phpspec Lumen - Test your Lumen app with phpspec
  • Understand Lumen - Laravel Lumen service provider for Understand.io
  • Badge Poser - Lumen Badge Generator
  • Cors Illuminate - CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) support for Laravel and Lumen
  • Jwt Artisan - JWT auth for Laravel and Lumen
  • Facebook SDK - Facebook SDK for Laravel and Lumen
  • Lumen Generators - A collection of generators for Lumen and Laravel 5.
  • Dingo API - A RESTful API package for the Laravel and Lumen frameworks.
  • Lumen Tinker - An interactive shell to Lumen framework
  • Lumen Maintenance Mode - Define Lumen Application Maintenance Mode
  • Lumen Vendor Publish - Vendor publish command for Lumen framework.
  • Lumen Make - Ports most of the make commands from Laravel to Lumen.
  • Lumen File Manager - File manager module for the Lumen PHP framework.
  • Lumen 5.2 HTTP Basic Auth Guard - Brings back basic authentication for Lumen 5.2.
  • Larasupport - Adds Laravel Packages Support to Lumen and Other Helpers.
  • REST API With Lumen - A RESTful API boilerplate for Lumen micro-framework.
  • Lumen Passport - Making Laravel Passport work with Lumen.

Made With Lumen

  • Slack Invitator - A Slack Invitator made with Lumen Framework
  • Email Microservice - Microservice for sending emails with Lumen
  • Lissandra - API for Laracasts Feed built with Lumen.
  • Lumen Solder - An implementation of Solder in Laravel's Lumen Framework.
  • Lumen Microservices Skeleton - Skeleton structure for Microservices with Docker and Lumen

Books

  • Writing APIs with Lumen
  • Lumen Programming Guide: Writing PHP Microservices, REST and Web Service APIs

Community

  • StackOverflow

Tips

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