It really depends on what you want to achieve. If you are familiar with Laravel and need in-depth integration with authentication, databases and whatever not, Lumen is a good way to start.
If you want to develop really small microservices it may make sense to fire up a index.php and throw some Symfony components in it. They provide basic functionality without much overhead.
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It really depends on what you want to achieve. If you are familiar with Laravel and need in-depth integration with authentication, databases and whatever not, Lumen is a good way to start. If you want to develop really small microservices it may make sense to fire up a index.php and throw some Symfony components in it. They provide basic functionality without much overhead.