NestJS + PHP = Lynx
Greetings, how are you? I hope your code and errors are plentiful. I'm back here after a long time. Let me briefly introduce myself. I'm a self-employed developer/entrepreneur who has been designing backend and system architecture with TS for 3-4 years. Everyone online knows me as Signor P. I'm here to announce that I've released my Lynx framework as open source, as I mentioned to you in the past. Lynx started as a hobby project, and then I asked myself, why not share it with other developers and develop it together? 😅. Briefly, Lynx is a backend framework written in pure PHP with a NestJS architecture and syntax. It's a framework with a small CLI tool written in Rust and a database system with a small TypeORM syntax. Developers who want more technical details can check the Github repositories. So why did I write Lynx... I sometimes need to write PHP or want to write PHP. But huge frameworks like Laravel tire me out. Minimal and spacious frameworks are rare in the PHP world. As a TS developer myself, I thought, why not port a TS framework to PHP? And I decided that NestJS was the most suitable framework for this. I use Lynx myself in some hobby projects and prototypes. When I needed to write a manager for database operations, I thought, why not use the TypeORM syntax that I always use and that is compatible with NestJS? And although not exactly the same, I added a database layer in a similar TypeORM style. Entities, Repository usage, etc... Currently, Lynx works for small projects and some medium-sized projects. However, it's worth mentioning that I am not a security expert or professional software engineer. Yes, I have a few successful projects that I haven't published yet, but I should point out that I'm not that good at PHP. Let's take a brief look at the project architecture.
