Introduction

Dumbo is a lightweight, friendly PHP framework for HTTP, inspired by Hono. It gives you fast routing, composable middleware and a handful of helpers, and then gets out of your way.

<?php

use Dumbo\Dumbo;

$app = new Dumbo();

$app->get('/', fn($context) => $context->text('Hello Dumbo!'));

$app->run();

Features#

• Lightweight and fast — a small, built-in router and PSR-7.
• Flexible routing — route params, nested apps and every HTTP method.
• Middleware — global or scoped to a path prefix.
• Security — CSRF, JWT, Basic and Bearer auth, and body size limits.
• Batteries included — cookies, CORS, compression, HTTP caching, request IDs, logging and static files.
• Templates — bring Twig, Blade, Latte or Smarty.
• Environments — development, production and testing modes.

Requirements#

Dumbo requires PHP 8.3 or newer and Composer.

Why Dumbo?#

If you've used Hono or Express, Dumbo will feel familiar. Every handler receives a single $context holding the request, the response and any values your middleware shares. Handlers return a response and that's it.

Where next?#