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dingo/api

This system is a PHP-based API framework for Laravel and Lumen that manages HTTP request handling, authentication, and routing. It provides a structured way to define API endpoints with versioning, rate limiting, and custom validation, while supporting JSON response transformation and internal request dispatching. The architecture emphasizes extensibility through contracts and middleware, with a focus on robust error handling and developer tooling for documentation and caching.

61.5

Adequate · 2 August 2026

8.8k

lines of production code

PHP

primary language

1

bus factor · 121 authors in all

3

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How it got here

2014 · API architecture refactoring and modernization

This period focused on a comprehensive refactoring of the Dingo API package, introducing a new internal request dispatcher, a modernized exception handling system, and a flexible transformer binding mechanism. The update also removed legacy classes and configurations while upgrading dependencies to support Laravel 7/8 and PHP 7.2/8.0.

20 changes

2015–2017 · API extensibility and rate limiting

This period focused on enhancing the Dingo API package by introducing a robust rate-limiting system and expanding the HTTP validation and parsing capabilities. The architecture was significantly improved through the introduction of extensive contract interfaces and event classes, enabling greater extensibility and cleaner separation of concerns across routing, authentication, and response formatting.

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  • The description of this project is derived from its own commit history, not from its README.
  • The score is its highest published measurement, taken on 2 August 2026 at a pinned commit. It is not a live figure and does not change until the project is measured again.
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  • Scored under rubric rubric-2026.08.18. Score the same commit under that rubric and you get the same number.
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