Flarum's Bootstraping process for using Illuminate components.

Doe

On his blog, Toby said:

...decoupling Flarum’s code from Laravel. Instead of using the whole framework, we will explicitly pull in components and tie everything together with a custom bootstrapping process.

I was just wondering how Flarum achieves this, and what package(s) in the composer.json files take care of this.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help ?

luceos

Doe composer.json

flarum/flarum loads flarum/core which has dependencies:

    "require": {
        "php": ">=5.6.0",
        "dflydev/fig-cookies": "^1.0.2",
        "doctrine/dbal": "^2.5",
        "components/font-awesome": "^4.6",
        "franzl/whoops-middleware": "^0.4.0",
        "illuminate/bus": "5.1.*",
        "illuminate/cache": "5.1.*",
        "illuminate/config": "5.1.*",
        "illuminate/container": "5.1.*",
        "illuminate/contracts": "5.1.*",
        "illuminate/database": "^5.1.31",
        "illuminate/events": "5.1.*",
        "illuminate/filesystem": "5.1.*",
        "illuminate/hashing": "5.1.*",
        "illuminate/mail": "5.1.*",
        "illuminate/support": "5.1.*",
        "illuminate/validation": "5.1.*",
        "illuminate/view": "5.1.*",
        "intervention/image": "^2.3.0",
        "league/flysystem": "^1.0.11",
        "league/oauth2-client": "~1.0",
        "matthiasmullie/minify": "^1.3",
        "monolog/monolog": "^1.16.0",
        "nikic/fast-route": "^0.6",
        "oyejorge/less.php": "~1.5",
        "psr/http-message": "^1.0",
        "symfony/console": "^2.7",
        "symfony/http-foundation": "^2.7",
        "symfony/translation": "^2.7",
        "symfony/yaml": "^2.7",
        "s9e/text-formatter": "^0.8.1",
        "tobscure/json-api": "^0.3.0",
        "zendframework/zend-diactoros": "^1.1",
        "zendframework/zend-stratigility": "^1.3"
    },

Toby

Follow it through ?

index.php creates a Flarum\Forum\Server instance
Flarum\Forum\Server extends Flarum\Http\AbstractServer
Flarum\Http\AbstractServer extends Flarum\Foundation\AbstractServer
Flarum\Foundation\AbstractServer::getApp() is where we bootstrap all the Laravel components.

Doe

Toby Thanks a lot! ?

I know that Lumen no longer supports sessions or views, but was there reason why you didn't start off with a Lumen app for the API? Because I think you mentioned it once way back.

luceos Yep, I had looked through the core's composer.json file, I just wasn't sure if Toby was using a specific package for bootstrapping and pulling everything together.