Little Beast is a PHP 8.3 or above framework made for 076.moe (game developer company) and technicalsuwako.moe (CEO's blog).
The core mentality is to extend what you need, and remove what you don't need.
Each core feature is split into libraries, so it is easy to choose what you need.
All modules are written from scratch, nothing is to be require a database.

Little Beast is TechnicalSuwako's final web project before moving back to game development completely.

What Little Beast is not?

General purpose framework
Hard to use
Meant for web developers
For everyone/wider audience
Tedious to install
Dogmatic
Democratically run

What Little Beast has not?

Database (everything is a file)
Dependencies
Package manager
Docker/Kubernetes/Vagrant/Nix/etc containers
Javascript
Bloatware
ORM
Queues or background job
Cloud/Serverless integration
Scaffolding
Code generation
Abstraction layers
Unnecessary files
DEI, Code of Conduct, or other discriminatory practises

Unique features

No database
No Composer or PEAR
No server overhead
No container
Maron template engine
Custom Markdown
ActivityPub
Multi-language support
Multi-blog support
100% correct and beautiful HTML5 and CSS3
100% correct PHP
SEO friendly
Modular CSS
Atom feeds
Built-in test suite

How to install

cd /var/www/htdocs
git clone https://github.com/TechnicalSuwako/LittleBeast.git .
mv config/config.sample.php config/config.php

Configure HTTP server to run /public as root via php-fpm.
That's all!

OpenBSD server

pkg_add php-8.4.14 php-gmp-8.4.14
rcctl enable php84_fpm httpd relayd
rcctl start php84_fpm httpd relayd

httpd

server "technicalsuwako.moe" {
  listen on * tls port 8443
  gzip-static
  tls {
    certificate "/etc/ssl/technicalsuwako.moe.crt"
    key "/etc/ssl/private/technicalsuwako.moe.key"
  }
  root "/htdocs/technicalsuwako.moe/www/public"
  directory index "index.php"
  location "/.well-known/acme-challenge/*" {
    root "/acme"
    request strip 2
  }

  location "/*.php" {
    fastcgi socket "/run/php-fpm.sock"
  }

  location "/*.php[/?]*" {
    fastcgi socket "/run/php-fpm.sock"
  }

  location "/" {
    directory index "index.php"
  }
  location match "/blog/" {
    request rewrite "/index.php"
  }
  location match "/about" {
    request rewrite "/index.php"
  }
  location match "/monero" {
    request rewrite "/index.php"
  }
  location match "/secret" {
    request rewrite "/index.php"
  }
  location match "/ap/" {
    request rewrite "/index.php"
  }
  location "/.well-known/webfinger" {
    request rewrite "/index.php"
  }
  location "/blog.atom" {
    request rewrite "/index.php"
  }
}

server "www.technicalsuwako.moe" {
  listen on * tls port 8443
  gzip-static
  tls {
    certificate "/etc/ssl/technicalsuwako.moe.crt"
    key "/etc/ssl/private/technicalsuwako.moe.key"
  }
  block return 301 "https://technicalsuwako.moe$REQUEST_URI"
}

relayd

relayd_addr="0.0.0.0"
router_addr="192.168.10.106"

table <httpd> { $router_addr }

http protocol reverse {
  tcp { nodelay, sack, socket buffer 65536, backlog 100 }
  tls ciphers "TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256:TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256"
  tls keypair "technicalsuwako.moe"

  return error

  match request header append "X-Forwarded-For" value "$REMOTE_ADDR"
  match request header append "X-Forwarded-Port" value "$REMOTE_PORT"

  #match response header set "Referrer-Policy" value "same-origin"
  match response header set "X-Frame-Options" value "deny"
  match response header set "X-Content-Type-Options" value "nosniff"
  match response header set "Referrer-Policy" value "strict-origin-when-cross-origin"
  match response header set "Strict-Transport-Security" value "max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload"
  match response header set "Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy" value "same-origin"
  match response header set "Content-Security-Policy" value "img-src 'self' https://*.076.moe http://*.076.moe https://*.technicalsuwako.moe http://*.technicalsuwako.moe; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; object-src 'none';"
  match response header append "Permissions-Policy" value "accelerometer=(), camera=(), geolocation=(), gyroscope=(), magnetometer=(), microphone=(), payment=()"

  match request header "Accept-Encoding" value "gzip" tag "gzip"
  match response header "Content-Type" value "text/*" tag "compress"
  match response header "Content-Type" value "text/html" tag "charset=UTF-8"
  match response header "Content-Type" value "application/javascript" tag "compress"
  match response header "Content-Type" value "application/json" tag "compress"

  pass request quick header "Host" value "technicalsuwako.moe" forward to <httpd>

  pass
}

relay www_tls {
  listen on $relayd_addr port 443 tls
  protocol reverse

  # Default
  forward to <httpd> port 8443 check tcp
}

relay www_www {
  listen on $relayd_addr port 80
  protocol reverse

  # Default
  forward to <httpd> port 8080 check tcp
}

Required PHP module

php_gmp