Awesome Plugins

Flight is incredibly extensible. There are a number of plugins that can be used to add functionality to your Flight application. Some are officially supported by the Flight Team and others are micro/lite libraries to help you get started.

API documentation is crucial for any API. It helps developers understand how to interact with your API and what to expect in return. There are a couple tools available to help you generate API documentation for your Flight Projects.

• FlightPHP OpenAPI Generator - Blog post written by Daniel Schreiber on how to use the OpenAPI Spec with FlightPHP to build out your API using an API first approach.
• SwaggerUI - Swagger UI is a great tool to help you generate API documentation for your Flight projects. It's very easy to use and can be customized to fit your needs. This is the PHP library to help you generate the Swagger documentation.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is crucial for any application. It helps you understand how your application is performing and where the bottlenecks are. There are a number of APM tools that can be used with Flight.

• betaflightphp/apm - Flight APM is a simple APM library that can be used to monitor your Flight applications. It can be used to monitor the performance of your application and help you identify bottlenecks.

Authentication and Authorization are crucial for any application that requires controls to be in place for who can access what.

• official flightphp/permissions - Official Flight Permissions library. This library is a simple way to add user and application level permissions to your application.

Caching is a great way to speed up your application. There are a number of caching libraries that can be used with Flight.

• official flightphp/cache - Light, simple and standalone PHP in-file caching class

CLI applications are a great way to interact with your application. You can use them to generate controllers, display all routes, and more.

• official flightphp/runway - Runway is a CLI application that helps you manage your Flight applications.

Cookies are a great way to store small bits of data on the client side. They can be used to store user preferences, application settings, and more.

• overclokk/cookie - PHP Cookie is a PHP library that provides a simple and effective way to manage cookies.

Debugging is crucial when you are developing in your local environment. There are a few plugins that can elevate your debugging experience.

• tracy/tracy - This is a full featured error handler that can be used with Flight. It has a number of panels that can help you debug your application. It's also very easy to extend and add your own panels.
• flightphp/tracy-extensions - Used with the Tracy error handler, this plugin adds a few extra panels to help with debugging specifically for Flight projects.

Databases are the core to most applications. This is how you store and retrieve data. Some database libraries are simply wrappers to write queries and some are full fledged ORMs.

• official flightphp/core PdoWrapper - Official Flight PDO Wrapper that's part of the core. This is a simple wrapper to help simplify the process of writing queries and executing them. It is not an ORM.
• official flightphp/active-record - Official Flight ActiveRecord ORM/Mapper. Great little library for easily retrieving and storing data in your database.
• byjg/php-migration - Plugin to keep track of all database changes for your project.

Encryption is crucial for any application that stores sensitive data. Encrypting and decrypting the data isn't terribly hard, but properly storing the encryption key can be difficult. The most important thing is to never store your encryption key in a public directory or to commit it to your code repository.

• defuse/php-encryption - This is a library that can be used to encrypt and decrypt data. Getting up and running is fairly simple to start encrypting and decrypting data.

Job queues are really helpful to asynchronously process tasks. This can be sending emails, processing images, or anything that doesn't need to be done in real time.

• n0nag0n/simple-job-queue - Simple Job Queue is a library that can be used to process jobs asynchronously. It can be used with beanstalkd, MySQL/MariaDB, SQLite, and PostgreSQL.

Sessions aren't really useful for API's but for building out a web application, sessions can be crucial for maintaining state and login information.

• official flightphp/session - Official Flight Session library. This is a simple session library that can be used to store and retrieve session data. It uses PHP's built in session handling.
• Ghostff/Session - PHP Session Manager (non-blocking, flash, segment, session encryption). Uses PHP open_ssl for optional encrypt/decryption of session data.

Templating is core to any web application with a UI. There are a number of templating engines that can be used with Flight.

• deprecated flightphp/core View - This is a very basic templating engine that is part of the core. It's not recommended to be used if you have more than a couple pages in your project.
• latte/latte - Latte is a full featured templating engine that is very easy to use and feels closer to a PHP syntax than Twig or Smarty. It's also very easy to extend and add your own filters and functions.

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