Phpanta

A small full-stack web framework for plain PHP 8.5 and browser-native TypeScript. No runtime dependencies, no template language, no composer on the server: a site vendors Phpanta as a git submodule, requires one autoloader, and deploys plain files.

It was extracted from the site of neuro.SYS, which is built on it. So is this one: every page here is rendered by a controller, a view and a shell, then exported to static files for GitHub Pages by the framework's own export command.

What it is made of

• Typed HTTP. A request is parsed defensively into a readonly Request, a response is a typed object, and every header is a name case and a value class.
• A markup tree. A view returns nodes, never a string. Escaping and the URL-scheme check live in render(), so they hold however an element was built.
• Immutable, lazy collections for every group that crosses a public boundary.
• Translation. Visible text is a Translatable, and the tree puts every word into the nearest lang when it renders.
• A signed API. /api/{service}/{version}/{action} is the one address family that writes, and every call is signed with an ECDSA key the server cannot use. A deployment is one signed request.
• Health checks. What a site needs of its host is declared in code, and the running deployment reports whether it has it.
• SPA navigation in which every link is a real href, so a page without JavaScript works the same.

Where to go next

• Getting started — vendoring it into a site, the app, building, deploying.
• The rules — the habits it replaces, and why each one fails loudly.
• Architecture — a request, traced through the layers.
• The repository — the source, and the full documents under docs/.