Introduction

Antares is a lightweight, API-focused PHP framework built around explicitness, type safety, and contract-first design.

It provides everything you need to build a modern JSON API — a DI container, attribute-based routing, DTO hydration & validation, Response serialization, a middleware pipeline,

And auto-generated OpenAPI docs — with zero magic and no hidden conventions.

Philosophy

• Explicit over implicit. Every request and response is typed. Routes are defined where you can see them — attributes, array config, or YAML.
• Type-safe by default. PHP 8.2+ readonly DTOs, strict hydration, and reflection-based resolution throughout.
• Composable packages. Each concern lives in its own Composer package. Use the full framework or pull in only what you need.
• No configuration tax. Route caching and cache invalidation in Production, bridge auto-discovery
• Zero bootstrap overhead. Built for worker runtimes — Swoole and FrankenPHP keep the app alive between requests.
• *Composable. Use the full framework or pull in just the container, router, or validation package independently.
• OpenAPI included. You define the contract — typed requests in, typed responses out. The docs write themselves.

Packages

Package	Composer name	Description
core	fatjon-lleshi/antares	Application boot, Dispatcher, Pipeline, ErrorHandler, OpenAPI
container	fatjon-lleshi/antares-container	Reflection-based autowiring DI container
router	fatjon-lleshi/antares-router	Attribute-based routing on top of nikic/fast-route
validation	fatjon-lleshi/antares-validation	DTO hydration + attribute-driven validation
bridges/monolog	fatjon-lleshi/antares-monolog-bridge	PSR-3 logger via Monolog
bridges/eloquent	fatjon-lleshi/antares-eloquent-bridge	Eloquent ORM integration

Requirements

• PHP 8.2+