Limoncello App is a fully featured OAuth 2.0 JSON API quick start application.
Out-of-the-box it has
- JSON API CRUD operations (create, read, update and delete) for a few sample resources with
to-one,to-manyandmany-to-manyrelationship types. - Support for such JSON API features as resource inclusion, sparse field sets, sorting, filtering and pagination.
- Database migrations and seedings.
- OAuth 2.0 server authentication and role authorization.
- Admin panel for managing users and roles.
- Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS).
- JSON API errors.
- API tests.
- Web tests.
Supported features
- Multiple nested paths resource inclusion (e.g.
posts,posts.user,posts.comments.user). - Filtering and sorting by multiple attributes in resources and its relationships.
- Supported operators
=,eq,equals,!=,neq,not-equals,<,lt,less-than,<=,lte,less-or-equals,>,gt,greater-than,>=,gte,greater-or-equals,like,not-like,in,not-in,is-null,not-null. - Pagination works for main resources and resources in relationships. Limits for maximum number of resources are configurable.
Based on
- Zend Diactoros
- Doctrine
- Pimple
- Monolog
- FastRoute
- Twig
- JSON API implementation
- Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
- Built with ❤️ Limoncello
It could be a great start if you are planning to develop JSON API.
Feel free to ask questions and thank you for supporting the project with ⭐.
$ composer create-project --prefer-dist limoncello-php/app app_name
$ cd app_nameRecommended additional step
$ npm installor
$ yarn installApplication runs PHP built-in server on port 8080
$ composer serveRecommended
$ npm serveor
$ yarn servePort could be configured in
composer.jsonorclient/webpack/base.config.js
If you use Postman here is a collection of API requests that would work with a local server (reading users, filter users, create users, and etc).
Here is a Postman screen-shot with the collection opened
By default the application is installed in development mode (less performance, tests and development libraries are available). Application could be switched into production mode (higher performance, no tests, no development libraries) with command
$ composer buildPerformance comparision with other frameworks could be found here and here.
$ composer testYou can find detailed instructions here.

