You could try LUMEN which is a lite version of Laravel. Took me around a day or two to fully get what was happening. I'm at the point now where I want to switch

You could try LUMEN which is a lite version of Laravel. Took me around a day or two to fully get what was happening. I'm at the point now where I want to switch a big project I've been working on over to Laravel but it's a bit of a PITA. Anyway, for hello world stuff or a small api project try beginning with LUMEN. https://lumen.laravel.com/docs/8.x https://lumen.laravel.com/docs/8.x