Lightna engine

Lightna engine is a lightweight PHP framework to build a fast decoupled server-side frontend for projects of any complexity.

The core missions:

Hit the highest pure rendering speed without caching.
Resolve performance degradation for continuously developed projects.

Lightna Engine is based on The Coin Concept which ensures that data used during page rendering is either opcached or indexed. Using PHP native templates and readily available data, page rendering takes only milliseconds.

Lightna can be freely used either to create new projects from scratch or to enhance existing projects with Lightna Lane.

Lightna helps to:

Prevent performance degradation
Stabilize performance
Reduce hosting expenses
Minimize the amount of JavaScript
Maintain stable performance with continuous integration or data synchronization
Avoid the use of page caching
Simplify the frontend technology stack

The first release of Lightna will support:

Routing
Page layouts in YAML format
Improved template engine based on native PHP
Object Manager to build object instances automatically
Lazy dependencies for objects to execute only used code
Modularity with advanced extending possibilities
Fast indexer
Support for different index storages
Deployment flow
Compiler
Basic architecture to build a quality Lightna frontend quickly