notrab / dumbo

v1.4.6 2026-10-11 12:54 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.3
• nyholm/psr7: ^1.8
• psr/http-message: ^2.0
• psr/http-server-middleware: ^1.0
• psr/log: ^3.0

Requires (Dev)

• firebase/php-jwt: ^6.10
• phpunit/phpunit: ^11.0

Suggests

• firebase/php-jwt: Required to use Dumbo\Helpers\JWT

MIT

• Jamie Barton

• framework
• http
• router
• hono

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-10-11 12:54 UTC

README

Dumbo

A lightweight, friendly PHP framework for HTTP — Inspired by Hono.

Install

composer require notrab/dumbo

Quickstart

<?php

require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

$app = new Dumbo\Dumbo();

$app->get('/', fn($context) => $context->json(['message' => 'Hello, Dumbo!']));

$app->get('/users/:id', fn($context) => $context->json([
    'id' => $context->req->param('id'),
]));

$app->run();

php -S localhost:8000 index.php

Routing, middleware, helpers, deployment and upgrading from 1.x are all in the docs. There are runnable apps in examples/.

For content sites, Jumbo adds pages from files, Markdown and static builds on top of Dumbo.

License

Dumbo is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.

Contributors