Slim is a great tool for creating APIs that consume data, repurpose it, or publish it. Slim is a great tool to create rapid prototypes. You can even create full-featured web apps with user interfaces. Slim is also super fast and requires very little code. You don't need to use a solution that has everything like Symfony and Laravel. These are excellent tools, no doubt. They are often overkill. Slim offers a minimal set that does exactly what you need. You will need a webserver like Nginx, Apache or similar. Slim apps contain routes that respond to HTTP requests. Each route calls a callback, and returns an HTTP reply. To get started you must first configure and instantiate the Slim application. Next, you define your application routes.