Laravel Zero

A micro-framework that provides an elegant starting point for your console application, maintained by Nuno Maduro. It is an unofficial and customized version of Laravel optimized for building command-line applications.

It’s built on top of the latest release of Laravel, the most popular PHP web framework. Using Laravel Zero, you are free to take advantage of Laravel's core great features, and at the same time leverage minimal application structure and a lightweight experience.

Laravel Zero is 100% open source, so you’re free to dig through the source to see exactly how it works.