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Bootstrapping the Core Library

You may want to run a minimal version of API Platform. This one file runs API Platform (without GraphQL, Eloquent, Doctrine MongoDB…). It requires the following Composer packages:

Note

This documentation is a work in progress we’re working on improving it, in the mean time we declare most of the services manually in the ApiPlatformProvider it can be source of inspiration.

# Components

API Platform is installable as a set of components, for example:

composer require \
    api-platform/serializer \
    api-platform/metadata \
    api-platform/state \
    api-platform/jsonld \
    phpdocumentor/reflection-docblock \
    symfony/property-info \
    symfony/routing \
    symfony/validator

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