The SitePoint PHP blog has posted a new tutorial from author Kirk Madera showing you how to use Zend Expressive to aid in more rapid development in your applications.

If you’ve ever done a Zend Framework quick start, you’ve probably never worked in Zend Framework. The quick start has historically been anything but quick, and it’s easy to lose interest and move on to the next thing.

Zend Expressive greatly improves upon this experience with the wizard driven composer create-project command. However, it can still be daunting to set up because there are so many choices to make up front. This tutorial guides you through my recommended setup for rapid development which will yield an enterprise level, robust application.

He then walks you through the creation of a Zend Expressive project from scratch and how to ensure it's up and running as expected. He then walks you through the structure of the application, software it includes (like Doctrine and Gulp) and examples of them in use. The post ends with a look at creating console commands using the Symfony Console component.