Lumen

What is Lumen?

“Lumen is a fast micro-framework by Laravel and is used to develop high-speed micro-services and API development."

Lumen is majorly used to develop APIs and web services. Lumen is Laravel’s micro framework that was created by Laravel’s creator i.e. Taylor Otwell. You can check all the releases here Release Notes – Lumen – PHP Micro-Framework By Laravel.

Lumen is a micro framework which means it is a fast and small version of the web framework. PHP has other two frameworks named slim and silex.