api-platform/core

The server component of API Platform: hypermedia and GraphQL APIs in minutes

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API Platform Core

API Platform Core is an easy-to-use and powerful system to create hypermedia-driven REST and GraphQL APIs. It is a component of the API Platform framework and it can be integrated with the Symfony framework using the bundle distributed with the library.

It natively supports popular open formats including JSON for Linked Data (JSON-LD), Hydra Core Vocabulary, OpenAPI v2 (formerly Swagger) and v3, JSON:API, HAL and Problem Details.

Build a working and fully-featured web API in minutes. Leverage the awesome features of the tool to develop complex and high-performance API-first projects. Extend or override everything you want.

Documentation

The documentation of API Platform Core Library can be browsed on the official website.

api

api-platform

graphql

hacktoberfest

hal

hydra-api

hypermedia

jsonapi

json-ld

php

rest

swagger

symfony

symfony-bundle

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5.2/10

Maintained

10/10

Code review

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