Building RESTful Web Services with PHP 7

How Lumen is different from Laravel

As Lumen is built for micro-services and APIs, components related to front-end like an elixir, authentication bootstrap, sessions and views and so on do not come with Lumen out of the box, but these can be included later on, if required: it is very flexible in that.

Routes are different in Lumen. In fact, it doesn't use Symfony router; instead it uses a different router which is faster but has fewer features. This is because Lumen sacrifices features for speed. Similarly, there are no separate configuration files like Laravel. Instead, some configurations are done in .env file while others related to registering a provider or alias and so on are done in the bootstrap/app.php file, probably to avoid loading ...