About Beacon

Beacon is a modern PHP application starter framework designed for developers who value simplicity, maintainability, and rapid development.

It combines proven architectural concepts such as dependency injection, service providers, middleware, routing, validation, authentication, database migrations, and Eloquent ORM into a clean, lightweight, and developer-friendly foundation.

Unlike many frameworks that require extensive initial setup, Beacon is distributed as a complete project skeleton, including a fully integrated authentication system with user registration, login, password reset, remember-me functionality, and email verification. This allows developers to focus on building their applications rather than spending time on repetitive boilerplate configuration.

Beacon also includes a lightweight Neumorphism-based CSS starter design featuring commonly used UI components such as cards, buttons, form controls, alerts, and popovers. The design serves as a practical starting point and can be customized or replaced entirely to suit your project's requirements.

Whether you're building a personal website, business application, administration panel, or custom web platform, Beacon provides a solid and extensible foundation to get started quickly.

Some Beacon Features

• Modern MVC architecture
• Service Providers
• Middleware Pipeline
• Named Routes
• Twig Templating
• Eloquent ORM
• DTO-based Validation
• Flash Messages
• Console Commands

Please refer to the README.md for a full list of the features.