MonkeysLegion v1.0.0 is Live 🚀 — Feather-Light PHP Framework Hits Stable
Posted by admin – August 13, 2025
“Version 1.0.0 isn’t the finish line—it’s the starting gun.”
— Jorge Peraza, Creator of MonkeysLegion & CTO at MonkeysCloud
🚀 Why another PHP framework?
MonkeysLegion was built for teams who want lightning-fast performance without the heavyweight abstractions of legacy stacks. Its home page sums up the promise perfectly: a lightweight, modular framework that lets modern teams move from commit to cloud without the boilerplate oai_citation:0‡monkeyslegion.com.
✨ Headline Features (v1.0.0)
Feature
Real-world impact
Lightning Router
Trie-based dispatcher resolves 100k routes in microseconds—no routing bottleneck even under heavy load oai_citation:1‡monkeyslegion.com
Smart DI Container
Compile-time wiring delivers cold-boot in < 40 ms, so CLI tasks feel instant and serverless cold starts stay snappy oai_citation:2‡monkeyslegion.com
Feather-Light Core
Full bootstrap weighs in at ≈ 9 MB RSS—great for tiny containers and memory-constrained environments oai_citation:3‡monkeyslegion.com
Universal PSR-15 Middleware
Layer auth, caching, rate-limits, tracing, and more with a single line of config oai_citation:4‡monkeyslegion.com
Small-Sharp Packages
Each concern lives in its own Composer library (monkeyslegion/*), keeping dependency graphs lean oai_citation:5‡monkeyslegion.com
🛠 Package Ecosystem
MonkeysLegion follows a “small, sharp package” philosophy. A few highlights 📦:
- monkeyslegion/core – helpers, CORS, route loader
- monkeyslegion/di – PSR-11 auto-wiring container
- monkeyslegion/router – attribute routing + dispatcher
- monkeyslegion/database, query, migration – thin PDO layer, fluent builder, SQL diff generator
- monkeyslegion/auth, validation, i18n – JWT login, DTO constraints, JSON-based translations oai_citation:6‡monkeyslegion.com
Install only what you need—or grab the full stack via the official skeleton.
⚡ Quick Start
# 1 — Create a new project
composer create-project monkeyscloud/monkeyslegion-skeleton my-app
# 2 — Run locally
cd my-app
composer serve # hot-reload dev server comes baked in
📈 Benchmarks at a Glance
- Route dispatch: 100 k routes ➜ µs latency
- Cold-boot: < 40 ms with full DI container
- Memory footprint: ~ 9 MB RSS after bootstrap
🗺 Roadmap & Ecosystem Growth
- MonkeysCMS — headless CMS powered by the framework (public beta Q3 2025).
- MonkeysAI — retrieval-augmented generation layer shipping in Q3 2025.
- Marketplace — adapters & boilerplates slated for Q4 2025.
💬 Get Involved
- ⭐ Star us on GitHub → https://github.com/MonkeysCloud/MonkeysLegion-Skeleton
- 💬 Join the Slack → https://join.slack.com/t/monkeyslegion/shared_invite/zt-36jut3kqo-WCwOabVrVrhHBln4xhMATA
- 🐛 Found a bug? Open an issue or PR—good ideas win here.
Happy hacking, and welcome to the Legion!