Packages

Quillstack is 36 packages. Each is released on its own, each can be installed on its own, and none of them needs the others to be useful — the framework is what happens when you take all of them at once.

Every page here is built from that package's own README, so what you read is what ships.

Start here

The framework itself, and the skeleton to start an application from.

Package	Install as	What it does
The framework	quillstack/framework	Wires the parts together: the kernel, middleware, error handling and the console.
The skeleton	quillstack/quillstack	A working application to start from, with routes, a controller and tests already in place.

HTTP

Everything a request touches on its way in, and a response on its way out. PSR-7, PSR-15, PSR-17 and PSR-18 throughout.

Package	Install as	What it does
Router	quillstack/router	Matches a request to a controller, and says what a path answers to when it does not.
Middleware	quillstack/middleware	The PSR-15 stack a request passes through.
Server request	quillstack/server-request	The request as it arrived, built from the globals.
HTTP request	quillstack/http-request	The methods, and what each of them means.
Response	quillstack/response	What goes back, and the status codes that go with it.
HTTP client	quillstack/http-client	Sending a request somewhere else, over cURL.
URI	quillstack/uri	Taking a URI apart and putting it back together.
Stream	quillstack/stream	The body of a message, read a piece at a time.
Header bag	quillstack/header-bag	Headers, matched without regard for case.
Authentication	quillstack/auth	Who is asking, enforced by the route rather than remembered by the controller.

Data

Getting things out of a database and back into one.

Package	Install as	What it does
ORM	quillstack/orm	Entities, relations, and a batching strategy that makes N+1 queries impossible.
Query builder	quillstack/query-builder	SQL written as method calls, with the values kept out of the string.
Database	quillstack/db	The connection underneath, over PDO.

Foundation

The parts an application stands on, each usable on its own.

Package	Install as	What it does
Container	quillstack/di	PSR-11, built for speed: dependencies read once and remembered.
Config	quillstack/config	Settings, and where they are read from.
Dotenv	quillstack/dotenv	The environment file, parsed strictly.
Dotenv expand	quillstack/dotenv-expand	Values built from other values, where an unknown name is an error rather than an empty string.
Events	quillstack/events	PSR-14 dispatching.
Cache	quillstack/cache	PSR-16, in an array or on disk.
Logger	quillstack/logger	PSR-3, with the message and its context kept apart.
Serializer	quillstack/serializer	What goes over the wire, said as what may rather than what may not.
Queue	quillstack/queue	Work handed to somebody else to do later.
Clock	quillstack/clock	PSR-20, so a test can say what time it is.
Date and time	quillstack/datetime	Dates that behave.
Parameter bag	quillstack/parameter-bag	A bag of values, asked politely.
Local storage	quillstack/local-storage	Files on this machine.
Storage interface	quillstack/storage-interface	What any storage has to answer to.
Validator interface	quillstack/validator-interface	What any validator has to answer to.
Output	quillstack/output	Writing to the terminal.
CLI	quillstack/cli	Commands, arguments and the console that runs them.

Testing

The tools this framework is tested with, which are also the ones it ships.

Package	Install as	What it does
Unit tests	quillstack/unit-tests	A test runner with no configuration to write.
Test coverage	quillstack/test-coverage	What the tests reached, and what they did not.
Benchmark	quillstack/benchmark	How long things take, measured rather than guessed.
Standards	quillstack/standards	Checks a package against the shape every Quillstack package takes.