The SitePoint PHP blog has a new post from Kirk Madera sharing some of the things he's learned about creating modules in Zend Expressive. His goal is to make it as easy as possible and enable "rapid development" in your application. This is the second part of a series on rapid development with Zend Expressive from Kirk (part one is here).

I have learned a few tricks when writing Zend Expressive modules that I want to share with you.

Please follow the previous post first to set up a proper working environment. I explained how to install and configure Zend Expressive with Doctrine, Gulp, and an abstract reflection factory – it’ll take a total of 10 minutes.

In this tutorial, we’ll build a simple read-only blog module (a page listing blog posts from a database) in minutes, demonstrating the kind of rapid development one is capable of with Zend Expressive.

He then shows how to use the command line tooling to create the module and how it is registered with Composer. He then shows the creation of the "blog" entity and database tables followed by the routing changes. Next he fleshes out the actions that will respond to the requests on each route and the templates that will be served as a part of the response.