My goal is for Aspire to be the best general-purpose PHP app framework out there.

Currently targeting: PHP 5.6+

In an age of front-end JavaScript frameworks like Angular, Backbone, React, Vue, Ember, ExtJs, and the like, where the code running on the server is just a dumb ReST API, I believe there is still a place alongside them for apps that run primarily on purpose-built web servers. These apps are not complex; they more closely resemble web pages than a piece of software, and a large portion of the web still looks and works that way, and will remain that way for the foreseeable future. That's not a bad thing. Aspire aims to give those webmasters a leg up.

• Hybrid architecture (ADR + the ViewModel from MVVM)
• Opinionated regarding use of best practices (I want this to be a model for the community)
• True, full object-oriented code
• Complete class modularity
• Standards-compliant code that is easy to read, write, and understand
• Performant and scalable
• Behavior-driven development (BDD)
• User authentication/ACL functionality included as an integral component
• Small, limited-functionality core that is easily extensible
• Use of libraries from the community unless a suitable one does not exist
• Centered around Composer and Github but includes an installer for non-CLI environments

• doc/ (auto-generated API documentation)
• features/ (API behavior specs in plain English)
• src/ (all core framework code)
• spec/ (testable code behavior specs)

• ORM (data mapper): Level-2/Maphper
• Router: crysalead/router
• Templating engine: Level-2/Transphporm
• Need to find good authentication and ACL libs

Any contributions are welcomed and requested. Help me make this thing awesome!