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Apache ServiceComb

ServiceComb

Open-source, full-stack microservice solution. With out-of-the-box, high performance, compatible with popular ecology, and multi-language support. Service contract guarantee based on OpenAPI. One-click scaffolding, out of the box, speeds up the building of microservice applications. The ecological extension supports multiple development languages such as Java/Golang/PHP/NodeJS. Apache ServiceComb is an open-source solution for microservices. It consists of multiple components that can be flexibly adapted to different scenarios through the combination of components. This guide can help you get started quickly with Apache ServiceComb, which is the best place to start trying for first-time users. To decouple the programming and communication models, so that a programming model can be combined with any communication models as needed. Application developers only need to focus on APIs during development and can flexibly switch communication models during deployment.

Starting Price: Free

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PHPUnit

PHPUnit requires the dom and json extensions, which are normally enabled by default. PHPUnit also requires the pcre, reflection, and spl extensions. These standard extensions are enabled by default and cannot be disabled without patching PHP’s build system and/or C sources. The code coverage report feature requires the Xdebug (2.7.0 or later) and tokenizer extensions. Generating XML reports requires the xmlwriter extension. Unit Tests are primarily written as a good practice to help developers identify and fix bugs, to refactor code and to serve as documentation for a unit of software under test. To achieve these benefits, unit tests ideally should cover all the possible paths in a program. One unit test usually covers one specific path in one function or method. However a test method is not necessarily an encapsulated, independent entity. Often there are implicit dependencies between test methods, hidden in the implementation scenario of a test.

Starting Price: Free

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RapidFort

Automatically eliminate unused software components and deploy smaller, faster, more secure workloads. RapidFort drastically reduces vulnerability and patch management queues so that developers can focus on building. By eliminating unused container components, RapidFort enhances production workload security and saves developers from unnecessarily patching and maintaining unused code. RapidFort profiles containers to understand what components are needed to run. Run your containers as normal in any environment, dev, test, or prod. Use any container deployment, including Kubernetes, Docker Compose, Amazon EKS, and AWS Fargate. RapidFort then identifies which packages you must keep, enabling you to remove unused packages. Typical improvements are in the 60% to 90% range. RapidFort also provides the option to build and customize remediation profiles, allowing you to pick and choose what to retain or remove.

Starting Price: $5,000 per month

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Superblocks

Superblocks is a platform that enables businesses to build AI-powered enterprise applications on their company data. It allows non-technical teams to generate apps quickly while IT maintains control over security and governance. The platform integrates with data sources like Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, and Azure. Superblocks ensures that all apps follow centralized authentication, access control, and auditing policies. It acts as a secure layer between AI apps and business systems. Teams can create internal tools without heavy engineering involvement. Overall, it combines AI app development with enterprise-grade governance.

Starting Price: $100/month

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MergeBase

With the lowest false positive software composition analysis (SCA) scanner, comprehensive software bill of materials (SBOM) engine, and patented Java Dynamic Application Hardening capability, MergeBase provides the only software supply chain security solution offering real-time DevSecOps visibility of third-party risk from development into operation covering all major languages from C/C++, .NET, JavaScript/NPM to Java.

Starting Price: $380 per month

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Kuroco

Diverta

This is the main concept behind Kuroco – a headless CMS that lets you focus on the distribution of personalized content and the development of a delightful front-end without having to worry about manually updating content, correct language display, or slow performance. Kuroco is built on the knowledge and technology of RCMS, a Japanese CMS we have been developing and successfully running since 20 years. Develop system-free applications with an enterprise headless CMS. Our backend-for-frontends (BFFs) platform enables a smooth UI/UX that is key to customer experience. Cut development costs by using your favorite programming languages as is. Say goodbye to the backend nightmares of traditional system development. Pick and choose the features you want anytime with no limits.

Starting Price: $180 per month

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Xdebug

Xdebug is an extension for PHP, and provides a range of features to improve the PHP development experience. A way to step through your code in your IDE or editor while the script is executing. An improved var_dump() function, stack traces for notices, warnings, errors, and exceptions to highlight the code path to the error. Writes every function call, with arguments and invocation location to disk. Optionally also includes every variable assignment and return value for each function. Allows you, with the help of visualization tools, to analyze the performance of your PHP application and find bottlenecks. Shows which parts of your code base are executed when running unit tests with PHPUnit. Installing Xdebug with a package manager is often the fastest way. You can substitute the PHP version with the one that matches the PHP version that you are running. You can install Xdebug through PECL on Linux & macOS with Homebrew.

Starting Price: Free

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PCOV

A self-contained CodeCoverage compatible driver for PHP. When PCOV is left unset, PCOV will attempt to find src, lib or, app in the current working directory, in that order; If none are found the current directory will be used, which may waste resources storing coverage information for the test suite. If PCOV contains test code, it's recommended to set the exclude command to avoid wasting resources. To avoid unnecessary allocation of additional arenas for traces and control flow graphs, PCOV should be set according to the memory required by the test suite. To avoid reallocation of tables, PCOV should be set to a number higher than the number of files that will be loaded during testing, inclusive of test files. interoperability with Xdebug is not possible. At an internal level, the executor function is overridden by PCOV, so any extension or SAPI which does the same will be broken. PCOV is zero cost, code runs at full speed.

Starting Price: Free

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ConTEXT Editor

ConTEXT is small, fast and powerful text editor for software developers. Unlimited open files, unlimited editing file size length, powerful syntax highlighting for C/C++, Delphi/Pascal, 80x86 assembler, Java, Java Script, Visual Basic, Perl/CGI, HTML, SQL, Python, PHP, Tcl/Tk, user definable syntax highlighter, project workspaces, compiler integration, multi-language support and many more features.

Starting Price: $0

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$Refraction$

Refraction

Refraction is a code-generation tool for developers. It uses AI to generate code for you. You can use it to generate unit tests, documentation, refactor code, and more. Generate code using AI in 34 languages — Assembly, C#, C++, CoffeeScript, CSS, Dart, Elixir, Erlang, Go, GraphQL, Groovy, Haskell, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, LaTeX, Less, Lua, MatLab, Objective-C, OCaml, Perl, PHP, Python, R Lang, Ruby, Rust, Sass / SCSS, Scala, Shell, SQL, Swift, and TypeScript. Join thousands of developers around the world using Refraction to generate documentation, create unit tests, refactor code, and more using AI. Use the power of AI to automate the tedious parts of software development like testing, documentation, and refactoring, so you can focus on what matters. Refactor, optimize, fix and style-check your code. Generate unit tests for your code with various test frameworks. Explain the purpose of your code to make it easier to understand.

Starting Price: $8 per month

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SpellBox

With SpellBox, you can say goodbye to hours of frustrating coding and hello to quick, easy solutions. SpellBox creates the code you need from simple prompts, so you can solve your toughest programming problems in seconds. No more time wasted on syntax errors, debugging, or scouring the internet for answers. With SpellBox, you'll have the code you need right at your fingertips, allowing you to focus on what really matters, delivering top-quality results. With the code explanation feature, you can save time by quickly gaining a deep understanding of the code you are working with, without having to spend hours researching or studying documentation. It's the perfect tool for anyone looking to improve their coding proficiency and maximize their productivity. With code bookmarking, you can save your code snippets, and quickly find what you retrieve them later. This feature is especially useful for developers who work on multiple projects and need to access their code snippets frequently.

Starting Price: $40 per month

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Snipit

Save and organize your code snippets in the cloud. Share and collaborate with your team members. Create code snippets in the web app, or use the browser extension to snip code blocks directly from the pages you visit. Be in full control of your code snippets. Create private lists and collections and keep things to yourself. Group similar code snippets in lists and collections and keep everything organized. Let your friends and colleagues see your private lists and collections. Give them write access for a true collaboration experience. Add custom tags and mark your code snippets as favorites, so you can easily find what you need. Find everything, from anywhere, quickly! Or use the smart search to intelligently find things by collection, list, title, syntax, or tags. View and edit your code snippets with a syntax-colored code editor. With support for 140 languages, you're basically covered! Search code snippets stored in your Snipit library and paste them directly into your project.

Starting Price: €5 per month

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SnippLeaf

You can save any kind of code snippet like HTML snippets, JavaScript snippets, or PHP snippets and later easily manage them. It's free for users who have maximum 40 snippets to save. Mainly this is a private snippet book and aims at private usage. Yes, there is sharing option but a very simple one (no direct sharing to social networks). SnippLeaf is a fast online snippet manager with intuitive keyboard controls for managing snippets. The login form is the only thing separating you from your snippets. After login first thing you see is your snippets. Use the bookmark button to access SnippLeaf in the separate window with no typing URL. Secure HTTP traffic (SSL), code highlighter, auto-save on editing, snippet groups, crossplatform. It's web-based so any device with a browser. Snippet sharing by unique/secret URL. Social authentication with Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Github (Gists supported). Search/filter, auto sorting snippets by last modified, and several sorting options.

Starting Price: Free

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Cody

Sourcegraph

Cody, Sourcegraph’s AI code assistant goes beyond individual dev productivity, helping enterprises achieve consistency and quality at scale with AI. Unlike traditional coding assistants, Cody understands the entire codebase, enabling deeper contextual awareness for smarter autocompletions, refactoring, and AI-driven code suggestions. It integrates with IDEs like VS Code, Visual Studio, Eclipse, and JetBrains, providing inline editing and chat without disrupting workflows. Cody also connects with tools like Notion, Linear, and Prometheus to enhance development context. Powered by advanced LLMs like Claude Sonnet 4 and GPT-4o, it optimizes speed and performance based on enterprise needs, and is always adding the latest AI models. Developers report significant efficiency gains, with some saving up to six hours per week and doubling their coding speed.

Starting Price: $59

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Lightly

Develop your apps efficiently with Multilingual cloud IDE - Lightly. Create high-quality code in no time with AI-generated code and collaborative development features. Lightly is a powerful cloud IDE that supports multiple programming languages, including Java, Python, C++, HTML, JavaScript. Write, run, and debug code on iPad, anywhere, anytime. The AI-generated code feature helps you quickly generate code. Collaborative development enables easy team collaboration in real-time. Lightly can deploy and host your projects without managing infrastructures. We'll provide project images to efficiently help you deploy on AWS, Azure, GCP, or any other cloud provider. You focus on your creativity and ideas, and let the AI programming assistant do the rest for you!

Starting Price: $9 per month

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Extism

Dylibso

Extism is an open-source, universal plug-in system to make all software programmable, and it's powered by WebAssembly. In-depth documentation, constantly updated as the project grows. 15+ officially supported Host SDKs, making Extism embeddable in the most popular languages. 7+ officially supported PDKs, to write plug-ins in whichever language a developer would like. A growing set of runtime features makes Extism an excellent plug-in system for apps of all types & sizes. Fully-featured canonical reference demo with Elixir host SDK, and plugins in Rust, TypeScript, & Javascript. Implementation of a turn-based multiplayer game platform and games included to play and review. Games are implemented as WebAssembly modules containing a specific set of exports. Check out the source code on GitHub, download the installer, and get started. 100% open-source code. Fork it, experiment, & run your own game server.

Starting Price: Free

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ToDesktop

We sign your desktop app with EV Microsoft Authenticode and Apple Gatekeeper certificates. Code signing is super-important because your app downloads and installs without warning dialogs. Your app will regularly auto-update to ensure the underlying browser is always up to date. Plus, this is how we deliver performance improvements, security patches, and additional features to your app. You'll get a customized installer for Windows, Mac and Linux. We even provide a magic link you can send your users which will detect their operating system and download the most up-to-date version of your app. ToDesktop will detect your icon and colors when you give it your web app's URL. Don't worry you can edit them if we don't get it right.

Starting Price: $58 per month

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WebForge IDE

Parallax Dynamics

A complete, powerful web development environment for iOS. WebForge includes everything you need to develop, run, and debug your web projects on your iPad or iPhone. No cloud needed. Includes: - Powerful code editor with syntax highlighting. - Inspect Browser built-in, providing extensive desktop-class browser dev tools. - Complete Git support - clone, branch, commit, pull, and push. - Run entire PHP projects on-device. Support for includes and a wide variety of extensions. Run on your device in the built-in browser. - Clone projects locally to your device or open code stored on iCloud. - Includes customizable and extensive code checking with in-editor notices to keep your code bug-free. - No cloud needed, everything runs on your device. Easily build fantastic web projects on your iPad and iPhone!

Starting Price: Free

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Cosine

Cosine is an AI-powered software engineering platform that enables developers and engineering teams to automate coding workflows, run autonomous development tasks, and manage complex software projects across cloud and local environments. Through its cloud platform, developers can delegate coding tasks to AI agents that independently research, write, test, and iterate on code while operating in secure, isolated MicroVM environments. The platform supports multiple operational modes, including autonomous execution, planning, collaborative agent swarms, and manual review workflows, allowing teams to balance automation with human oversight. By combining parallel agent execution, remote infrastructure access, and model-agnostic support for leading AI models, Cosine helps organizations accelerate software delivery while maintaining control, security, and code quality.

Starting Price: $20/month

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Koyeb

Push code to production, everywhere, in minutes with Koyeb. Accelerate backend apps at the edge with high-performance hardware. Connect your GitHub account to Koyeb, choose a repository to deploy, and leave us the infrastructure. We build, deploy, run, and scale your application with zero configuration. Simply git push, and we build and deploy your app with blazing fast built-in continuous deployment. Develop fearlessly with native versioning of all deployments. Build Docker containers, host them on any registry, and atomically deploy your new version worldwide in a single API call. Invite your team to build together and enjoy a live preview after each push with built-in CI/CD. The Koyeb platform lets you combine the languages, frameworks, and technologies you use. Deploy any application without modifications thanks to native support of popular languages and Docker containers. Koyeb detects and builds apps in Node.js, Python, Go, Ruby, Java, PHP, Scala, Clojure, and more.

Starting Price: $2.7 per month

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Svix

Webhooks require a lot more engineering time, resources and ongoing maintenance than you would first expect. Building a secure, reliable, and scalable webhook service is hard and time consuming. We built it so you can focus on what matters most, your business. Customer endpoints fail or hang more often than you think. You need automatic retries to ensure deliverability. You need to monitor the deliverability of your webhooks to different endpoints, disable failing ones and notify your customers. Webhooks come with a myriad of security implications, such as SSRF, replay attacks and unauthenticated webhook events. You would need to build a UI for your users to add and remove endpoints, inspect logs and get ongoing reports. Offer your users a great developer experience, including the ability to test, inspect and replay their webhooks.

Starting Price: $490/month

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Polar Signals

Polar Signals cloud is an always-on, zero-instrumentation continuous profiling product that helps improve performance, understand incidents, and lower infrastructure costs. With just one command and the easiest onboarding guide you’ll ever see, you can start saving costs and optimizing performance in your infrastructure. Travel back in time to pinpoint incidents and issues. Profiling data provides unique insight and depth into what a process executed over time. Utilize profiling data collected over time to confidently and statistically identify hot paths for optimization. Many organizations have 20-30% of resources wasted with code paths that could be easily optimized. Polar Signals Cloud employs an exceptional blend of technologies, purpose-built to deliver the profiling toolset essential for today's evolving infrastructure and applications. With a zero instrumentation setup, deploy immediately and reap the benefits of actionable observability data.

Starting Price: $50 per month

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Yii

Yii PHP framework

Yii is a fast, secure, and efficient PHP framework. Flexible yet pragmatic, works right out of the box, and has reasonable defaults. While Yii can virtually eliminate most repetitive coding tasks, you are responsible for the real creative work. This often starts with designing the whole system to be built, in terms of some database schema. The best way to do this is by using migrations. Yii gives you the maximum functionality by adding the least possible overhead. Sane defaults and built-in tools help you write solid and secure code. Write more code in less time with simple, yet powerful APIs and code generation. Yii is a generic web programming framework, meaning that it can be used for developing all kinds of web applications using PHP. Because of its component-based architecture and sophisticated caching support, it is especially suitable for developing large-scale applications such as portals, forums, content management systems (CMS), ecommerce projects, RESTful services, etc.

Starting Price: Free

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Phalcon

A full-stack PHP framework delivered as a C-extension. Its innovative architecture makes Phalcon the fastest PHP framework ever built. Developers do not need to know C to use Phalcon. Its functionality is exposed as PHP classes and interfaces under the Phalcon namespace, ready to be used. Zephir/C extensions are loaded together with PHP one time on the web server's daemon start process. Classes and functions provided by the extension are ready to use for any application. The code is compiled and isn't interpreted because it's already compiled to a specific platform and processor. Thanks to its low-level architecture and optimizations Phalcon provides the lowest overhead for MVC-based applications. Build single and multi-module applications with ease and pleasure. Using the file structure, scheme, and patterns you already know. Writing REST servers and applications has never been easier, with no boilerplate, and simple services that fit in one file.

Starting Price: Free

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Swoole

Powering the next-generation microservices and applications. Build high-performance, scalable, concurrent TCP, UDP, Unix Socket, HTTP, GRPC services with PHP and easy-to-use coroutine, fibers API. Write your next scalable async application with PHP coroutines and fibers. Compared with other async programming frameworks or software such as Nginx, Tornado, and Node.js, Swoole is a complete async solution that has built-in support for async programming via fibers/coroutines, a range of multi-threaded I/O modules (HTTP server, GRPC, process pools) and support for popular PHP clients like PDO for MySQL, Redis, and CURL. You can use sync or async, coroutine, or fiber API to write the applications or create thousands of lightweight fibers within one Linux process. Swoole enhances the efficiency of your PHP applications and brings you out of the traditional stateless model, enabling you to focus on the development of innovative products at a high scale.

Starting Price: Free

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FuelPHP

The Fuel PHP framework is a fast, simple, and flexible PHP 5.4+ framework, born from the best ideas of other frameworks, with a fresh start. It was born out of the frustrations people have with the currently available frameworks and developed with support from a community of developers. FuelPHP is extremely portable, works on almost any server, and prides itself on clean syntax. FuelPHP is an MVC (Model View Controller) framework that was designed from the ground up to have full support for HMVC as part of its architecture. But we didn't stop there, we also added ViewModels (also known as presentation models) into the mix which gives you the option to add a powerful layer between the controller and the view. FuelPHP also supports a more router-based approach where you might route directly to a closure which deals with the input URI, making the closure the controller and giving it control of further execution.

Starting Price: Free

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PHPixie

PHPixie is easy to learn and does not rely on automatic; you will always be in charge of what's happening. Designed for speed since first release and proven by independent benchmarks. Built using components that can be used without the framework. Linear execution flow, no static code, and low coupling. Reuse and share your code via Composer as self-contained bundles. Never find yourself in an event hell ever again as event use is avoided. Database components support working with MongoDB out of the box. Designed from scratch according to SOLID principles and industry standards. PHPixie started as a micro framework and has gradually grown to be one of the most popular full-stack PHP frameworks while retaining its high performance. This is in part because of the strict architecture that avoids common pitfalls such as reliance on static methods, global scope, singletons, and other antipatterns, thus also ensuring that the code is easy to read, debug, extend, and test.

Starting Price: Free

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Fat-Free Framework

Speed up your development process. F3 is lightweight, easy-to-use, and fast. Most of all, it doesn't get in your way. It has a gentle learning curve so you save money on training expenses. Whether you're a novice or an expert PHP programmer, F3 will get you up and running in no time. No unnecessary and painstaking installation procedures and no complex configuration are required. A powerful yet easy-to-use PHP micro-framework designed to help you build dynamic and robust web applications. Full-featured toolkit, super lightweight code base with just ~90kb, and easy to learn. Take advantage of the built-in features. Develop apps that really rock. F3 gives you a solid foundation, a mature code base, and a no-nonsense approach to writing web applications. Under the hood is an easy-to-use web development tool kit, high-performance URL routing, a multi-protocol cache engine, built-in code highlighting, and support for multilingual i18n applications.

Starting Price: Free

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Pop PHP Framework

Pop PHP is an open source, object-oriented PHP framework with humble beginnings dating back to 2009, where it started as a small library of components. The focus of Pop is to provide a robust set of lightweight tools to assist developers with rapid application development. With a relatively small learning curve, Pop aims to help developers in getting the features they need into their applications so they can be up and running quickly. The Pop PHP Framework contains a group of core components and an additional 30+ components that serve as a toolkit for rapid application development. The framework itself has a base set of core components as well as numerous other additional components to facilitate many of the common features needed for a PHP application. The goal is so that anyone from a novice developer to an advanced programmer can install and start using the Pop PHP Framework quickly and effectively.

Starting Price: Free

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DepsHub

Everything you need to keep your team secure and up-to-date with automatic dependency updates, license checks, and security vulnerability scanning. We process library changelogs and release notes, analyze your codebase, and automatically update your dependencies, including any breaking changes. Secure tools for effective dependency management, whether you have a team of 2 or 200. See all your dependencies in one place. No more digging through repositories. Avoid legal trouble by making sure your dependencies are licensed correctly. Get notified when a dependency has a security vulnerability. Update your code only if it affects you. DepsHub helps you save time by providing a simple and easy way to monitor and update your dependencies. We support a wide range of languages and frameworks. Use the one you love and get started in minutes. Connect your favorite tools and create tickets, be notified of new issues, and more.

Starting Price: $28 per month

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Best Application Development Software for PHP - Page 4

Compare the Top Application Development Software that integrates with PHP as of August 2026 - Page 4

Apache ServiceComb

PHPUnit

RapidFort

Superblocks

MergeBase

Kuroco

Xdebug

PCOV

ConTEXT Editor

Refraction

SpellBox

Snipit

SnippLeaf

Cody

Lightly

Extism

ToDesktop

WebForge IDE

Cosine

Koyeb

Svix

Polar Signals

Yii

Phalcon

Swoole

FuelPHP

PHPixie

Fat-Free Framework

Pop PHP Framework

DepsHub

Best Application Development Software for PHP - Page 4

Compare the Top Application Development Software that integrates with PHP as of August 2026 - Page 4

Apache ServiceComb

PHPUnit

RapidFort

Superblocks

MergeBase

Kuroco

Xdebug

PCOV

ConTEXT Editor

Refraction

SpellBox

Snipit

SnippLeaf

Cody

Lightly

Extism

ToDesktop

WebForge IDE

Cosine

Koyeb

Svix

Polar Signals

Yii

Phalcon

Swoole

FuelPHP

PHPixie

Fat-Free Framework

Pop PHP Framework

DepsHub

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